zer0netgain wrote:
Bothers me too.
However, I appreciate that intimacy involves physical contact. So, when someone wants to hug me and I don't consider the social situation to be inappropriate, I try to tolerate it.
I believe repeated expressions of intimacy can help increase your "comfort" with it...particularly with someone you actually like. So, I use these situations (I'm in my 40s now) to improve my "comfort zone" with physical contact.
Still makes my skin crawl...but I'm trying to grow.
Doesn't mean they have to do it all the time.
Maybe once. But not every freakin bloody second.