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Way to Receive More Oxytocin in Your Life

celticeagle @celticeagle (189793) • Boise, Idaho 29 Dec 23

Oxytocin is a hormone known as the love hormone and it affects aspects of bonding. Hugging, laughing together, eye contact, handshakes, a kiss on the cheek, and other physical touch helps in the release of this hormone and emits...

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Social distancing

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 1 Nov 23

I am so used to social distancing that I never hug anyone since the last few years. The other day someone dropped in bringing her 18 months old cute baby I just could not hug the baby Actually these days it is safe to do that...

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Yesterday was International Hugging Day!!! Irony is that not advisable to do it right now because of Covid risk!!!

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 22 Jan 22

Hi guys, Hope you all are doing good and enjoying your weekend with family. I am doing good too. I came to know that yesterday 21st January is celebrated as "International Hugging Day". It...

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Short story: The man who was jailed for hugging a tree

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 15 Dec 21

Charles had always been a lonely type, always keeping his thoughts to himself, and yet one particular day, he met a lady in a park, who sat next to him on the park bench, and she started talking to him, about trees. It was...

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Appreciating Even The Smallest of Things

Gloria Faye Brown Bates @GrannyGee (3517) • Louisburg, North Carolina 24 Apr 20

Businesses like beauty salons, barbershops, tattoo parlors, restaurants, bowling alleys, and other non-essential businesses opened up today in different states. I was wondering how safe that is going to be. I would like to get...

appreciate the smallest of things

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Hugging with prayers....

Aanshi Raghava @Aansh13 (11433) • New Delhi, India 7 Jun 19

Sometimes I really miss few people... I feel like hugging them tight...but since I can't find them close, my arms can't afford to hug them, so I hug them in my prayers, I wish them luck.... Thats one of the ways I feel connected...

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SNL Spoof On Kanye West Almost Matches The Actual Talk

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 17 Oct 18

President Trump recently gave free reign to his rapper supporter, Kanye West and American Footballer Jim Brown. West was allowed to make a presentation that amounted to the most sprawling unintelligible crazy gibberish...

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Pillow

Recia Ann Panado Apiag @Xang13 (63) 16 Jul 18

In my bed, hugging my pillow tight, thinking it was you. Oh, how I miss you so much. I miss when you suddenly woke up and telling me to stay with you and never leave you. Please come home soon.

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What a wonderful lazy day ~~~ aaaahhhhhhh

rebelann1949 @rebelann (117199) • El Paso, Texas 21 Apr 17

This morning was wonderful, I woke up totally refreshed. After my morning ritual ..... trust me, you don't want to hear about it ..... I meandered to the kitchen to heat the coffee I'd...

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Are you a touchy-feely person?

Claire Raymond @Clairelouiser (683) • United Kingdom 12 Jan 17

I am certainly not, and I never have been. I don't like to be touched or hugged or anything like that by anyone apart from my wife, I have always been the same, I don't know why it is just how I was raised. I even feel...

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PUBLIC DISPLAYS.

Kandase @Kandae11 (57233) 7 Jan 17

How do you feel about public displays of affection? - either as a bystander or perhaps an unwilling participant? I have nothing against a peck on the cheek or a warm hug, but anything deeper makes me cringe. Some couples tend to...

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My Photography - The kiss... sort of... haha

CaseyL @CaseyRoss9966 (4056) • United States 17 Sep 16

This is when they were supposed to be kissing, but from the angle I was at they just look like they were hugging. I still think it is a cute photo though. I wish I had been on the other side when it happened but I am only one...

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Don't Pass Up An Opportunity To Hug a Tree

M. K. Albus @MKAlubs (455) • United States 16 Aug 16

Are you a tree hugger? I am. And I'm not always ashamed to admit it.

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Kids Need Hugs More Than They Need Things

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 4 Feb 16

We should hug our children every chance we get. Hugs remind them that they are loved. Buying them toys and other things doesn’t work nearly as well as constant hugs. Children left in orphanages who are never hugged don’t...

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hug your kids

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My ex DIL cried!

jillhill @jillhill (37353) • United States 20 Feb 13

My granddaughter came to stay with me on Sat. and on Sunday I had to return her to her mother who is my son's ex wife. Well I have seen her since the divorce but not alot. We used to spend alot of time together....shopping,...

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Hugging Total Strangers

Sebastian Onciu @polaris77 (2039) • Bacau, Romania 26 Jul 12

A young woman found an original way of coping with the stress of moving from a small community to a big city:to stop feeling homesick and lonely she went out in the streets and asked people who were total strangers to give her a...

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Hugs

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 14 Oct 11

I was in the US on a holiday and after my package tour I spent time with my close family and friends who have settled there.One of my friends said she would take me to a club where she is a member. She reminded me that it would be...

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Hugging your dad or mom when you aren't accustomed to it

Charlene Sally C. @PointlessQuestions (15397) • United States 7 Sep 11

Hi my fellow Lotters! I was just on another discussion and it reminded me about showing affection to our families when they are stoic or not used to being hugged. First, let me say that I grew up in a family that never said...

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Does hugging ever make you feel uncomfortable?

mark98 @mark98 (567) • China 9 Feb 11

I love hugging family and close friends,but no one else,really. It makes me feel uncomfortable. Also,do you ever pat people's backs while hugging them? I do. They tell me it's weird.

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do you hug something or someone when sleeping?

annavi23 @annavi23 (6633) • Philippines 18 May 10

hello mylotters, i always loved pillows... i even have small pillow which i usually hug everytime i sleep. i can't sleep without that certain pillow. i received that from my ex- boyfriend but it's not...

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