Do you miss people?

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Have realized that while I often think fondly of certain people and know that I will be happy when I see them again, I pretty much never miss people in the sense of having a sad longing for someone. The only exception is when I have been actively in love with someone but I think that is best explained as a special case of special interest.

How about you?

Same. I think about my baby a lot and my husband says that means I miss him but I don't feel that way. I don't feel sadness or nothing. I don't feel that way either about my husband either.

Ditto everything that emtyeye said.

I miss people more than most others would. I miss my mom and baby brother and I've only been gone from them since this morning. I feel the sad and longing when I miss people.

This is interesting, though, because supposedly young children don't know they miss people until the people come back to them. Then, they're happy and sad at the same time. Is that how you feel? If so, it may be because of a younger emotional age like people have been talking about in some of the other posts.

Not really. I've never missed my family (parents, brother etc).

I do greatly miss my friends who emigrated in 2006. Hugely. So much it hurts sometimes. I don't know why I miss them in particular so much. But they are the two people who I count as close friends so perhaps that has something to do with it.

When my husband and I are apart, I think of him often and I use the word miss to describe it, but it isn't the same as how I miss my two friends ... it doesn't hurt in the same way. Probably because I always know I'll see him again relatively soon.

I miss people. It gets really painful sometimes.

I miss my mom when she works long hours. I also miss a couple of people I used to be friends with when we were in school.

Sometimes I miss having people in general around, as I live remotely, and sometimes I miss certain people because I cannot have a conversation with them, but I only think it unfortionate that they are not there at the most. So, no I do not miss specific people.

This has baffled me for a long time because I feel as though I should miss people and I obviously love certain people (my girlfriend, family and so on...) But yet I don't have any empty feelings or longing for them when they leave. I'm happy to see them again when I do but the emotion just isn' there. I always felt that maybe I was just cold hearted or something of that nature but yet I am not, I am very caring. It's really interesting to see there are other who feel the same, it's an odd feeling to not have a feeling you know you should have and even want to have haha.

I generally do not miss people. Having them there when the time comes is good, but I don't have a longing for them when they are away, because I know I will see them again. But I do feel like I would be very lost if my mother died.

I don't miss people. When a family member that provides things for me goes away on a vacation or something similar the only thing that I do feel is the loss of someone doing something for me. I miss them for what they do, and not for who they are. We're conditioned to think that this is a bad thing... but I can't really FEEL that way. So I just live with it.

I don't miss people at all. Though I do kind of miss not being able to talk to certain people when I feel like talking. Just miss the talking part, not that person.

I watch NT's at work, they get so excited when someone comes back from holidays, I couldn't give two hoots. Just lightens the work load. Or when someone who is overseas sends in a postcard, meh.

Apart from my partner and children it would not bother me in the slightest if I never saw anyone I know again. Not my brother, parents, friends. No one. I do like seeing some of those people but when they are gone I hardly think about them again.

There is one person whom I miss but she is dead.

I am sometimes saddened by my lack of sadness at some people's absence, if that makes sense.

I feel like, if our relationship were what it should be, I would feel sad when they are not there (and not just happy when they are.)

At the same time, there are certain people who I miss so badly the pain of it is almost unbearable. Even when I am away from them for only a few hours.

this sounds strangely familiar...
i indeed on't really 'miss' people/things/animals/pets/insert here, yet i can be quite exited when seeing someone again after a long time, while at the same time it feels, to me at least, as if i never left in the first place.
this is most apperant with my parents; ever since i moved off to college, i dont really miss them, yet being home means being home, and i dont miss my roomies either...
the closest thing that i get to 'missing' is being annoyed that my parents keep trying to let me "just do something now you're here"...