tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2407399313002600028.post2728459064694243476..comments2016-06-26T08:27:03.339+01:00Comments on Dei, Doodles, Dachsadors and Domus: Keeping it personalSiobhanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944970101016938434noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2407399313002600028.post-27040625202691116522011-05-17T12:27:30.983+01:002011-05-17T12:27:30.983+01:00I just saw this,a few days late I know, but as a R...I just saw this,a few days late I know, but as a Rev's missus, I get hugged and kissed a lot,at my arrival at church and various metings. I come from a family of non-huggers, I knew my parents loved me with out them being too demonstrative. I now find that I brace myself on arriving anywhere.I tend to creep out at the end to avoid doing it all again!Jennihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01339994890869186684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2407399313002600028.post-3548806607144463002011-05-11T12:02:13.391+01:002011-05-11T12:02:13.391+01:00We are all so different in this as in so many thin...We are all so different in this as in so many things. I am a hugger, with a strong need to express affection physically, but would never hug where I know it wouldn't be wanted. My husband is very definitely not a hugger (except where I'm concerned) but his nearest and dearest are in no doubt of his deep affection for them. Our son is like me and our daughter much more like her father in this, and we respect and enjoy our differences :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2407399313002600028.post-40240288342539097542011-05-09T14:46:43.331+01:002011-05-09T14:46:43.331+01:00I know this feeling well, though from the opposite...I know this feeling well, though from the opposite perspective of yours.<br />From a family where affection was limited in all but verbal form, then on to a marriage where physical manifestations of affection were rarer than hen's teeth, I understand well the odd conflict of wanting desperately to be hugged but being almost physically incapable of offering hugs unless the need is such that it overcomes my initial shrinking. I couldn't let someone in really deep distress go untouched but even then it would never feel 'natural'.Ray Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09209429097744326143noreply@blogger.com