Holding Your Significant Other's Hand in Public??

@artistry (4152)
United States
October 20, 2009 12:52pm CST
Are you embarrassed to hold hands in public with your lover, or your husband? Or do you like to show affection in public?
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@JodiLynn (1417)
• United States
20 Oct 09
I generally enjoy holding my husbands hand when we are out and about. If it's cold I snuggle up close and he is forced to share his nuclear reactor warmth with me. But then there are the rare times when if he tried to touch me in public after acting like a turd, I'd ask him who he is and why is he touching me.... Because men can be such men sometimes
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@artistry (4152)
• United States
20 Oct 09
...Hi there JodiLynn, Thank you for commenting. It's comforting to have a large hand holding yours and keeping your fingers warm. If your an gets on your nerves, you get ticked with him for a while but usually we forgive and forget and move on. Men, we love them, we love them a little less and we love them a little more. It's the nature of all that is, between a man and a woman. Take care.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
24 Oct 09
Hand holding and kissing and hugging hello and goodbye are fine but canoodling or passionate kisses are a bit much...now twenty years ago I wouldn't have said that because if I was in love I wouldn't care who saw me /us express our love and happiness. These days I find watching this sort of thing a bit inappropriate and uncomfortable.
@artistry (4152)
• United States
25 Oct 09
...Hi there Ms Tickle, Hope you are doing okay. We all had our young and restless days. We change as we mature, some break out and get wilder if they were more reserved when they were young, but I tend to think most of us get more reserved and pay a little more attention, to what may be deemed "proper conduct" in public, I know I do. Holding hands is kind of cute to me. But when you are in public, and start to act like you need a private bedroom, you should go home and express yourself there. Just a thought. Take care.
• United States
20 Oct 09
I love to show affection in public! I love holding hands, locking our arms together, kissing, hugging, etc, etc! It definitely doesn't embarrass me and I hope it doesn't embarrass him haha.
@artistry (4152)
• United States
20 Oct 09
...Hi theamazingjenny, Welcome to the ranch, enjoy yourself. It's nice,if the two people like to do the same thing, that way, it makes it enjoyable. I am not too much of a person who likes to kissy, kiss in public. I just don't want to put too much of my private business out there, for everyone to see. Bit of an introvert I am, after a certain point. Love to see older people holding hands. Take care.
@jesssp (2712)
• Canada
20 Oct 09
We hold hands quite often, it's almost automatic for one of us to grab the other ones hand when we're walking. We're usually quite affectionate when we're in public but we aren't crazy with over the top PDA. I'll give him a little kiss or him me but we don't full on make out or anything. I don't really like seeing people with their tongues down each other's throats in places like Walmart!
@artistry (4152)
• United States
20 Oct 09
...Hi jessup, Thanks for your response. It's interesting, I watch couple's on tv, and if they are sitting together and one is leaning away from the other, the body language gives you an idea, of how close they are otherwise. People who care for each other like to be close to each other. It's that good feeling thingee. I am not interested in seeing people going overboard with affection on the street, but holding hands is A-okay with me. Take care.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
20 Oct 09
Hi artistry, I'm not in the slightest embarrassed, my Greek always has an arm thrown round me or a hand and I like it as he's so huge it makes me feel protected. It's a change as the last Greek could not bare to be seen touching in public, he thought it was a terrible thing and it did get a bit ridiculous after a while as I'm quite touchy feely sometimes.
@artistry (4152)
• United States
20 Oct 09
..Hi thea. Thanks for your response. It's nice to know that your significant other, does not mind, showing that he cares for you in public. I think it becomes an affirmation, when they hold your hand in public. This is my lady and this is my man, can you see me now? Take care.
@Lcrkar05 (344)
• United States
21 Oct 09
I like to but we don't very often. There's just times we don't feel like it and there's times he don't want to.
@artistry (4152)
• United States
25 Oct 09
...Hi Lcrkar05, Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. Some of us are touchy feely people, some of us are not. I like hugs, not so much in public, but otherwise, I think hugs are a nice show of affection. I do like to hold hands, and I like it when the guy, leads and pulls me along gently, letting me know he wants me with him. That really makes me feel good. If you and your guy are in tune with each other, that is what counts. Take care.
@coolcoder (2018)
• United States
20 Oct 09
When I was dating my ex-boyfriend several years back, we had no problem holding hands in public, but we didn't kiss. I just think that kissing really doesn't have a place in the public arena (except, perhaps, at weddings, or Christmas parties, or the like). It's too personal of a display of affection, in my opinion.
@artistry (4152)
• United States
20 Oct 09
...Hi coolcoder. Thanks for responding. I am in agreement. Kissing one another in public should be a no no, unless it's on the cheek. That's just my opinion as well. Holding hands is an innocent act, which does not do any harm. In fact it sort of makes me feel good, to see people holding hands, especially older people, but that's just me.
• United States
20 Oct 09
I love holding hands with my husband. I don't think it is embarrassing at all and seeing someone doing it is very sweet. I especially love seeing elderly couples that are still in love enough to be holding hands... I don't mind showing affection in public as long as it is in taste and not gross. I can't stand seeing your couples with nasty hoggish hickeys on their necks and can't stop sucking face long enough to walk down the street.
@artistry (4152)
• United States
20 Oct 09
...Hi froggieslover, I appreciate your comment. I think its cute to see couples holding hands. I also,along with you, do not like to see people getting too involved by kissing and hugging in public. Take it home if you are so overcome, that you have to put on a public display. It is not good manners, in my opinion. Take care.
• United States
20 Oct 09
Hi Art! As for me, I love to show affection in public! Well not to much! But I am a touchy feely person! In public I hold my boyfriends hand, just so he can know that I am there.. lol... As well as my daughter, I like to show affection and I am not afarid to let it be known!
@artistry (4152)
• United States
20 Oct 09
...Hi there prikayjo2436, thanks for your comment. It's nice to see people holding hands, it gives you some kind of feeling that things are right in their part of the world. Also that people care about each other. I think it is a good thing to hold hands. I also think it is a great idea, to give people you care about a hug every day, not necessarily in public, but hugs show love and I am all for more hugs, verbal hugs are good as well. Take care.