Kissing parents/family members

Threebabes

I never kissed my mam or dad not for as long as I can remember. I kiss my kids, my son whos 14 on the cheek and the girls on the cheek tho the little one who is 6 likes to kiss you on the mouth but I would imagine she will grow out of that. The only people I tell I love you to are my husband and kids. We both tell them. I cant imagine stopping telling them.

My MIL when we see her (not very often if we are lucky) kisses us on the cheek and DH on the cheek. Yuck I dont think its right kissing on the mouth.

Bunny

my family kiss on the cheek and hug, hello, goodbye and thankyous. So does my husbands, but when we leave my family, my 5ft 3in Nanna will chase my 6ft 2in husband to give hima goodbye peck on the cheek, just for entertainment value, you'd think after 6 years, he'd give in by now

I don't hug and kiss my friends and especially friends of friends that i've never met, why do people who have never met you want to hug you, freaks me out a little!

candygirl

My family hug and kiss each other on the cheek, but never on the mouth:eek::eek:I find that a bit tooooo intimate:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

jackieb

I hug and kiss my family all the time (husband and children) and I always finish off a phonecall with 'I love you'.

We're not a very demonstrative family otherwise. Dad always gives me a New Year kiss (on the cheek). When my mum was having a mastectomy we always gave her a kiss before we left the hospital - it's not our norm but in the circumstances it felt right. I'm definitely not comfortable with others coming in to give me a hug - I like my own space. With my kids i'm very comfortable with it - it seems natural - even though my big lads just normally stand still and let me get on with it.

bellrooster

jackieb wrote: »

Are you an Aquarian by any chance?

No, I'm a Taurus!

jinky67

bellrooster wrote: »

My family aren't huggers and kissers! I find it a bit weird although I do hug and kiss my daughter, but she's 4!

My OH's family are huggers and kissers, which is fine, but I don't like it when I'm expected to join in! I like my own space and am very much aware of my personal 'bubble' and the only people who I feel totally at ease with is my OH and my DD.

thats me that is:D
and Jackie, I am :rotfl:how did you guess?:rotfl:

certain family members ARE kissy and huggy but I am not one of them, I only ever do it to my Gran( because she expects it) and kids

Sunshine12

We are a very huggy kissy family but kiss on the cheek rather than lips. We always say I love you when finishing a phone call too. My partner and his family never say I love you and rarely kiss or hug. Every family different I suppose. When we have kids we will definately be a kissy huggy family. I think its nice to be like that although realise its not every ones cup of tea.

seven-day-weekend

Kiss family members, but not on the mouth. We don't have many in the immediate family now, not anyone who I see anyway. Apart from my husband and son there is just my sister and my husband's cousin and her husband. Don't ever say 'love you' to anyone except for my husband and son (and not to my son as often as my husband because it embarrasses him).

I didn't used to like doing it but have got used to it here in Spain where everyone kisses everyone else (not on the mouth though). My son doesn't like it but puts up with it 'because mums like to do it' (in answer to another poster my son and I are both Aquarians )

*Louise*

Was never brought up to be huggy/kissy etc. Think all of that stopped well before I hit my teenage years. Couldn't tell you the last time I heard my mum say she loved me, although I know she does.

Totally opposite with my own children and want to bring them up to be more demonstrative and affectionate. Kissing on the mouth does seem a little weird when everyone is adult though :-s

mummy_Jay

I'm from a very huggy, kissy family, though my sister was not so inclined. As a small child I use to hug her and get black eyes for my efforts but when we grew up and bad things happened, it was me she came to for comfort.

Now i have a DS of my own, I hug him as much as I can and kiss him on the cheek. I tell him I love him loads every day, I can't drop him off or tuck him up in bed without tell him. I do end phone calls to the rest of my family with love you.

I also hug my friends, when we meet up, to say thank you, to say good bye, quite often coupled with a kiss on the cheek, I also tell them I lurve them long time but this is something I grew into. I do remember as a kid of about 12, making a friend on holiday and being quite freaked out when she kissed me on the cheek when I left but now I would see this as quite normal.

I'm a very tactile person and if your my friend, I'm going to express it.