do you kiss your mum and dad or any other (non immediate) family members on the lips?

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my dp caught my aunt kiss me on the lips the other evening ( i actually dont purposefully do this - she aims for the lips and i aim for the cheek but she catches me). but i told him that i have always kissed my mum and my dad and sister on the lips. he said it was disgusting and wrong

what do you think? i have always done this and wont be changing just wondered what your thoughts were

No, I think it's creepy to kiss family members on the lips. Lips only for dh.

OMG i'm a freak! On meeting someone for the first time, I kiss on cheek. But then follow their lead. Mostly without exception I kiss all my friends, DH's friends, both sides of the family even the previous owners of our house on the lips. I don't see the issue. If someone doesn't like it they present their cheek.
It's just a quick peck...... and yes it is personal, but surely that's the point.
Having said that, I'm a bit of a 'cuddly mum' to everyone and have been told by DH that I have a gift for making people feel comfortable around me so perhaps that's why. I see it as a compliment and a very natural and nice thing to do to a fellow human being.
There is a massive difference between these kisses and those reserved for hubby.
Oh, and we teach DS (16months) to kiss everyone as they leave the house too.....

I kiss my mum on the lips, always did but I know it is weird, never did with my dad. I adore my mother and I dont know I see it as normal !

Yup, kiss my mum and dad on the lips when we say goodbye, and tell them I love them.

Have done so all my life, and anyone that thinks it's creepy or wrong is the one with issues.

Do what you do in your own family but don't make out other families are odd for doing things differently.

But saying that, I used not to do huggs, I have only started since I have been in england, everybody hugs here ! Tis weird.

I grew up in Holland and Germany and my dad often brought home his continental work assosiates so even kissing complete strangers 3 times is the norm for me. I have often kissed my parents on the lips.. a peck no differant than a peck on the cheeks, my kids do it to me all the time to and i love it.

I think it's sad you DH is so creeped out by it

No, I only kiss DP. The ILs do the social kiss on the cheek thing and even that makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable and I try to avoid it if I can.

no. Only Himself.

When the children were younger I would cover them in kisses. Now they are young gentlemen and would rather die than have a kiss off mum

Kissing my parents, or auntie or sister or anyone else on the lips gives me the heebie jeebies.

However, I am so disgusted by the thought of being made to give my dad a kiss that for the last 20 years I have pretended that I have pogonophobia.

I hate kisses.

The cold sore and colds arguments are baffling - no-one who normally kisses their loved ones on the lips would do so if they were infectious with stuff; it's not like we're being forced to do it!

Violet, most people who kiss on the lips are very tactile and also hug and say soppy thing too. Well, my family does. I don't peck my family on the lips, nor do I smooch them. I give 'em a little kiss! As for a peck turning into something else, my mind boggles; why on earth would I or the other family member be thinking of 'anything else' when kissing someone we're related to?! I don't kiss non-family members on the lips, because you don't know what other people have been brought up to view as 'normal' (but I do hug them and kiss them on the cheek). My family are generally very soppy - we hug and tell each other we love each other lots when together, not just when greeting and departing. I wouldn't have it any other way :)

yes,i kiss my mum on the lips. dp kisses my mum on the lips too.

I just have a 'thing' about coldsores. There is no common sense in my irrational weirdness as far as they are concerned.

I'm just not a very 'touchy' person so don't much like even touching or hugging from anyone other than my DP, never mind mouth-kissing . Just don't feel comfortable with that sort of physical intimacy with most people.

My parents always go in for the lips, I'm nearly 30 and have recently started finding this rather odd, I now try to divert. Reassured to find I'm not the only one who finds this weird, but also that it isn't 'weird'. They still insist on a kiss before I go to bed if I stay there, tell me they love me every time I hang up phone etc.

No-one but the children and DP. Never. Wouldn't dream of it.

People have tried and failed - usually getting my ear instead because I've turned my head so far and fast in avoidance!

I first became aware that families or friends do this at all in my twenties, when I saw X-MIL and X-H kiss on the lips - and found it repulsive.

My reaction now probably wouldn't be so strong but I would still find it mighty strange to witness.

The only people I kiss on the lips are my 5 year old DD and my best (female) friend. Everyone else gets a hug and/or a kiss on the cheek, including my parents.