Did you wait to hug your loved ones until it was govt permitted?

[Honey12346]

I'm just curious really. The govt permitted hugs on May 17th I think. Did you wait until then to hug family and friends?

No. Because I’m not a self righteous martyr and I know that having already suffered enough non Covid related family traumas, that you can’t hug anyone when they’re dead.

And if you come back at me with “oh but you’re increasing the chances of your relatives being dead with Covid by hugging them...blah blah” you can actually fuck right off, and then when you get there you can fuck off even more.

Nope!

God no. Hugged throughout.

No. I followed the rules in lockdown 1. Once I changed jobs and was working with 100+ people per day I never went back to the rules in the later lockdowns. Friends and family have been welcome in my home since last summer. I did distance from my dad (oldest relative) over Christmas and January until he had his 1st jab, but apart from that I haven't let the government dictate who comes into my home. Personally this has helped my MH hugely, the levels of anxiety being shown on here and elsewhere are worse than I've ever seen, and I'm sure if I'd have isolated myself from my F+F for over a year I'd be struggling.

Ha, ha, ha. No.

Oh course not. I still haven't hugged anyone.

But then I hated the constant hugging pre covid anyway.

The change that made the biggest difference for me on the 17th was having my parents in my home. Hugging is neither here nor there when you haven't been under the same roof in over a year.

No, I hugged my eldest son before we were allowed to have support bubbles and my mum and grandad after they'd had both vaccines

No, it's ridiculous micro management.

Yes. And I still haven’t- most of my family lives in a delta hotspot and we are choosing to wait to see them.

No

Yes. I hate hugging, so is/was a great excuse.

Before all this I just used to say “no thanks, I’m not very keen on hugs”. I didn’t need the whole world to stop hugging each other just to suit me

I was really not missing the stranger hugs.
Friend's new boyfriend (who I didn't even know existed) insisted on hugging everyone on arrival and leaving.
I was happy to hug friend, but didn't want to hug him, but there didn't seem an easy way round it.

No. I hugged my son and dil and granddaughter because they were in my support bubble. I hugged my sister because we wanted to. Not friends just family and if the goverment didn't like it - tough.

My loved ones live overseas so I am still waiting