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My family never hugged. Maybe very occasionally mum and dad would hug, no, thinking honestly about it, I only saw them hug once.
I grew up not hugging, or wanting a hug. I got through life quite nicely without hugging. When I was older, friends noticed my behaviour, and remarked I was standoff-ish. I wasn't you know, I just didn't hug.
My family later started to hug, well, some did, some still don't. Those that hugged accepted that I don't and those that still don't hug understood.
Friends would sometimes force a hug on me, so I clumsily hugged them back. They would laugh in play. Think it was funny. "See, I got you to hug!" But they really didn't, my heart wasn't in it.
The last time I saw my mother alive, she said 'Come on, give your old mother a hug". So I did. A week later she was dead. This was three years ago but I can feel our last hug wrapping around my chest today.
Covid-19 stopped everyone from hugging. I now understand the power of the hug. And now we can't. It could kill someone.
I grew up not hugging, or wanting a hug. I got through life quite nicely without hugging. When I was older, friends noticed my behaviour, and remarked I was standoff-ish. I wasn't you know, I just didn't hug.
My family later started to hug, well, some did, some still don't. Those that hugged accepted that I don't and those that still don't hug understood.
Friends would sometimes force a hug on me, so I clumsily hugged them back. They would laugh in play. Think it was funny. "See, I got you to hug!" But they really didn't, my heart wasn't in it.
The last time I saw my mother alive, she said 'Come on, give your old mother a hug". So I did. A week later she was dead. This was three years ago but I can feel our last hug wrapping around my chest today.
Covid-19 stopped everyone from hugging. I now understand the power of the hug. And now we can't. It could kill someone.