How often do you hug your partner or show affection?

I would love to give you a hug!! I'm pretty huggy myself - well around those I'm comfortable with even if I've just met them. Physical closeness and affection are important in my relationships too.

you are so lucky then, I don't even get a hug once in a month from others. But i usually get hugs from my girl. Hugging is taken as negative part in our society so its hard to give and take in public. But I feel good when I hug my girl. We both feel good while hugging and while sharing each others' affection.

Awww, I think hugging is a natural and normal part of life. It's even been proven that if babies and children are not touched and hugged regularly, they can suffer emotionally because they don't get the physical signs of love and affection.

i don't know about other people, but i do know that a hug and a kiss goes a long way in any kind of relationship

Yes it is, isn't it? I just shake my head at the people who aren't like this. So far I haven't seen any responses from anybody who isn't like this, but I'd like to see one and an explanation. LOL!

I think I understand a little bit why some people are not huggy and touchy. Example in my family we were not used to hug each other. Although there is love and respect but they were demonstrated in any other way.

Affection is meant to be shared! This is why I don't understand people who are not affectionate. If you don't show love and allow others to show love to you, sooner or later you drive people away.

It makes me sad when I talk to a child who says people don't hug and cuddle in their family. I do understand that everybody is different but I think it affects some people negatively and causes harm in their future relationships with others if their family is too stingy with physical affection.

We've been married for almost 25 years now, and yes apparently to some people, couples married for this long don't go around hugging and kissing and holding hands LOL The reason why I think that the affectionate environment in my home when I was growing up can play a part in why I am affectionate myself - although the major part is because I am already - is because people that grow up in a different environment sometimes don't feel comfortable showing affection. Just because they weren't used to it. To some, showing or receiving affection is a sign of vulnerability, or even weakness.It doesn't happen to all, but to a lot of people that didn't experience shows of affection when they were children. Both my kids were like your daughter, but as they grew up my daughter changed a bit. She is affectionate but not as much as we are. MY son, still is. He is almost 16 and still hugs me when he comes from school, puts his arm around me when we're walking, etc. MY daughter is a bit more distant and will only get closer when she's sad or hurting.

How long have you been married? I don't see any change in the future to our pda lol. I don't always come to the conclusions I do or decide how to act based on my past, sometimes I choose something that feels more like me than what I've experienced. I think some of that is why I rarely have a problem with seeing affection in public. I think it's great. People who frown need more affection in their lives. I think my hubby has always been somewhat that way but until me he did not have somebody in his life who appreciated it. My daughter is VERY cuddly and huggy and always has been. I think it's going to be really hard to keep her from coming in our room all the time. Right now it doesn't matter because she doesn't have to get up and go to school every morning, but next year she'll have to have a more regular bed time and not be getting up and coming in here over and over.

Don't you find that odd? Have you ever talked to him about it?

My dad was never like that to my mom .

i mean he never did any of that ;*(

That could be true, but isn't it better to break the cycle rather than repeat it? You really get what you give, not being affectionate can cause you sadness in the future.

LOL! Well I for one do not mind! So many people are so taken for granted or stuck in a rut. Seeing people who are in love (and showing it) is refreshing.

It's the small things that matter and make up the fabric of life

Hehe... my hubby is out with the little one doing shopping for 'mommy day' tomorrow. I have an ulterior motive to it as well... I snuck in some alone time here PLUS she got 'just daddy' time out of it. She is very cuddly too, and I enjoy it.

Plenty of hugs a day keeps the devil away, hahahaha

LOL! I realized that's why my kids were so weird about our pda for awhile. They weren't used to it! Also young teens especially are just somewhat grossed out by their parents - for obvious reasons.

I don't honestly pay much attention whether we are home, out, in private etc. Other than making sure it isn't something that we could legally get in trouble for, who cares? Our kids used to give us looks for chasing each other around in the house, and we've gotten looks from people in grocery stores before, but you know, if someone is going to be sour and miss out on the joy of love and life and be disagreeable, I think they need someone to give THEM a little PDA =P We aren't that young either, so here's to older couples with teens - if you still got it, enjoy it! Unless we have our little daughter wrapped around one of us, we are attached at the hands.

Same here! It is not a good day for me if he didn't kiss me before he left for work lol.

It's a good way to be Nobody can resist a hug!

Hehe... well love isn't love till you give it away, right? I always get warm fuzzies when I see couples out holding hands or walking and hugging. I see so many ranting or yelling at each other or simply not touching. It's good to know there's still a couple good ones left out there.