Are you a hugger?

No. Please get out of my space.

I would hug but I never get the opportunity. My wife is definitely not a hugger.

Hugs are my FAVORITE!!! Unless you are a total stranger though lol. My church is full of huggers, so its a good thing I like em!! Except I hate goodbye hugs... They make me sad

Totally a hugger! Growing up we always have everyone a hug at family gatherings. One when we got there and one when we left. We knew it was time to go when mom would say, "Ok, give everyone hugs and kisses!" The kisses are cheek kisses now that I'm grown but we all still make the rounds every time we see each other. It's exactly like it sounds, a free for all with everyone making sure they've hugged every one else.

I love it. My sister hates it, and so we make sure to give her twice as many. At Thanksgiving this year she wouldn't let me hug her til I promised not to do it hard, and while she was backing away, my brother comes tearing around the corner and grabs her! Stop I jumped in and drug another cousin in, too, while my sister is yelling, "You're killing me!" We call our hugs Roberts Hugs. They're even better than bear hugs.

Stipulations for hugs are loose. With the exception of my sister, I don't hug those who ask not to be, but it doesn't take a lot to be included in the family. Family is not always determined by blood.

I'll virtually hug the breath outta ya. (((((Hugs))))) But in RL, please, no touching unless you are making me breakfast the next morning.

I hug my family member, and close friends, I avoid hugging other people.

We knew it was time to go when mom would say, "Ok, give everyone hugs and kisses!"

Is this a southern thing? My brothers-in-law (and their wives) do this constantly with their kids. My nephew was visibly uncomfortable with this for years. I felt bad for him. I would whisper to him he doesn't have to hug me if he doesn't want to.

I asked my mom about it. She told me it was a southern thing, as she was raised like that. I asked her why she never, ever made me do it. She told me she used to hate having to hug and kiss all her relatives. She wasn't going to make her child do it. If I wanted to hug and kiss, it should be my choice. Bless her...

NOPE!!! Don't touch me. I give high-fives and *kitten* slaps.

I'm a hugger spooner and official foot warmer!

Very interesting question.
>One of my best friends is a male and he is married and he is a hugger and a kisser. Honestly it creeps me out. I ask him not to do it so he stops for a day then he is at it again it escalates to creepy then I ask him again so on, so on, so on.
>I hug my mum and dad.
> My sisters if needing to comfort.
> I would hug friends if i had not seen them for awhile to show real joy in catching up with them (but only if they were huggers of course).

I'm a hugger spooner and official foot warmer!

All men are foot warmers. It's your job. Kind of like killing the bugs and opening really tight jars.

I'll virtually hug the breath outta ya. (((((Hugs))))) But in RL, please, no touching unless you are making me breakfast the next morning.

^^^ This. Or if I'm drunk. I'll pretty much dry hump everyone when I'm drunk :drinker:

In my culture we hug a lot with family and close friends, but there are some people who are just huggers with EVERYONE. So do you hug or do you avoid it at all costs?

It's funny to see the looks on my students' faces when I tell them that at every get together (Christmas/birthday parties, funerals, weddings, etc) it is customary to hug/shake hands with everyone in the room as you enter for the first time and as you exit at the end. The general response of the teenagers is "Oh hell no"...we rarely got to the kiss on the cheek discussion after that...lol

no I am NOT a hugger. NOT touchy-feely person. I love holding my babies, everyone said I held them too much but they're adults now so what's too much? I hug & hold my grandkids & snuggle with my dogs.
But I hate ppl hanging off me omg I hate that. I don't hang on guys, not a hand-holder.. I feel like I'm in 'custody' LOL I'm a pure romantic
it's not that I don't display affection, I do - just not for HOURS!
LOL
oh, and i hate, loathe & despise PDA... in young ppl, a certain amount is expected. But in older ppl!? disgusting- get a room!

We knew it was time to go when mom would say, "Ok, give everyone hugs and kisses!"

Is this a southern thing? My brothers-in-law (and their wives) do this constantly with their kids. My nephew was visibly uncomfortable with this for years. I felt bad for him. I would whisper to him he doesn't have to hug me if he doesn't want to.

I asked my mom about it. She told me it was a southern thing, as she was raised like that. I asked her why she never, ever made me do it. She told me she used to hate having to hug and kiss all her relatives. She wasn't going to make her child do it. If I wanted to hug and kiss, it should be my choice. Bless her...

Not for us it isn't a southern thing. No one in my family has lived farther south than me. We're just a really close family. Some of us (like my sister) didn't like it, but we didn't push it too hard. It was more shyness than an actual repulsion to the hugging. I remember just being shy when I was asked to hug someone in my family that I don't see often, so I wasn't as comfortable with them in general. Now that we're grown, my sister will leave without hugging some people, but my brother and I give her a hard time because she thinks she's too cool for us

It's kind of understood that we all want hugs and kisses, but if someone is opposed, even in the moment, it's not forced.