Kissing....Lips or Cheeks?

teenyuck

At my Dad's funeral I realized something...all the JW relatives on my mother's side of the family "lip" kiss.

This means that when you are greeting that person, male or female, young or old, you grasp them, pull them forward, hug and kiss...on the LIPS!!! UUUGGGHHH!!! It suddenly hit me....that is really gross! They have done this for as long as I can remember.

When I greet old friends or family (on my father's and husband's side and my mother)I turn my head and make sure all lip contact is only with cheeks.

When I tried this with my aunts and female cousins, they grabbed my face with both hands and kissed on the lips.

I personally do not like kissing anyone, other than my husband, on the lips.

Have any of you encountered the "kissin' cousins?"

TR

Hugging is cool. Kissing? Only when I have a woody. WITH MY WIFE!!!

TR

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
--Robert Frost, 1935

edster

That's funny puff.
You must have really close relationships with your cousins. Imagine feeling the prickly moustaches pressed against your lips or getting the aftertaste of their lunch. Ughh!

gilwarrior

puffs, I just have to know, where are you from?

"I have so much love to give, but no one to give it to."

William H. Macy - "Magnolia"

Celia

Even in France, where you do kiss acquaintances when you meet them, it's on the cheeks, not the lips, unless a woman kisses a man, a girl a boy, and they're a little more close....
I would not like being kissed on the lips by some uncles of mine, burk ! I did kiss my son on the lips when he was younger, do it still from time to time, but just a peck !

blindfool

No kisses please, hugs are great!!

teenyuck

gilwarrior...I am from the Chicago area....

edster...I don't think any of my aunt's have a mustache, however, I tried not to look too close! UGH! Thankfully, all my uncles are gone..they did the same thing...

I take that back...my Dad's brother came in for his funeral..I have not seen him since his father (my grandfather) died in 1991. He gave me a big lip kiss...he is kinda weird though. He is 14 years older than me, however, he is my uncle. It was too weird. I tried to turn away and he still got me.

Why do relatives (or strangers) feel the need to lip kiss?! My mother always tries; I can get away from her...I am taller.

zev

this may or may not be a part of my make up as a jw, but...

i dont like to be touched at all. a hand shake is cool, and the occastional hug. no kissing. and don't crowd me. dont stand to close, or you will see me move off, very subtley.

i am not that way with my family however, and hugs and kissing of mom, dad, and sisters, nephews and neices, are fine with me. just not on the lips.

there is only one person who gets to have the whole "me"....
and you all know who that is.

-Zev
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"So that's how it is in their family" - Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

My grandma always says: "Give me cheek" and rubs her cheek on mine. Hehe

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meat pie

I am shocked not to say disgusted, being British I find there is never any need for more than a firm ( yet brief) hand shake at full arm's length. All that hugging and kissing at the hall made me sick, especially when you knew what they were saying about each other ( and me no doubt) the rest of the time.

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