Do you like to Touch your Friends?

Hey i definitely know where youre coming from and no i dont think its weird! As humans we naturally want to be physically close and intimate with others, especially our friends. I know I have certain friends i like being close to and touching in a platonic way like you described but others not so much. I think it really just depends how close you are as friends with the person. Although i must say you should be aware of your feelings and of developing stronger feelings like romantic love for said friends especially if theyre straight because theres nothing worse. But it sounds like youre honest with yourself so thats good!

 

Yeah dude their is absolutely nothing weird about that. It just means that your emotionally close to your friends. It happens to me sometimes too. I will just feel the need to hug one of my friends. And girls too even though I'm not attracted to them. It just friendship.

 

I feel the same way too. I am very touchy feely and very affectionate. It's not weird at all.

 

Ditto to that. I feel the same way usually so no. It's not weird.

 

I don't like physical contact with my friends, which probably is weird. I'm more than happy to hug people but there's a few (even my best friends) that I really don't feel comfortable when we touch. I don't have a problem with physical contact if its warranted and I want it, but for example if someone's leg touches mine on a train I feel really uncomfortable.

 

I'm the same way although I have to be initiating it. If someone else, even if it's my friend, tries to touch me I usually shy away. I do that with everyone except for whomever I am dating at the time. Odd.

 

It's normal... I like to think of it as a sisterly/motherly/daughterly like bond. My best friends and I hug and sort of snuggle all the time, and it is in a totally no -sexual way, (but that is also partially why I am scared to come out).

 

Me too. Me and some of my girl friends are always touchy feely, but not the guys. I would get a boner. My guy friends are sexy. That isn't weird...

 

No, I'm notorious among my friends for being someone who won't do physical contact, in a jokey way though, not in a rude and ignorant way.
In school a bunch of the guys in my class would try to randomly sneak up on me and try to hug me but it never worked, same with the girls. I only ever give hugs when either I'm drunk or the other person is a crying female friend. It's kind of started again now with a new friend I have, he insists upon trying to hug me whenever we're saying goodbye but I'm not having it :lol: we've compromised on a kind of a handshake type thing, but he still goes in for a hug every time.

 

I was never a hugging kind of person, but I am coming around to the idea now (*hug*)

 

I don't touch people unless we're really good friends, even then it's kept to a minimum. However I have a lot of friends who seem to constantly be hugging or something, so if anything me not being all "touchy-feely" is seeming more unusual.

 

I have to be in the mood for any sort of touching, which is almost never. I'm known among my friends for completely sidestepping,ducking, and running away from any sort of hug. So its kind of a game for them and sometimes some people catch me off gaurd and if I dont know them well I freeze up and endure it. If its a friend I'm a squirmy bastard haha.

 

I love hugging my friends, sadly, as all my friends until recently have been males, I couldn't have done it, cause, you know, they tend to think it's gay. But now that I'm beginning to make female friends I'm starting to hug more, yay!

 

I personally don't like to be touched. I have actually learned to go out of my way to be more, uh, touchy, because people were commenting on it. Up until last year, I don't think I'd ever even patted someone on the back. If I'm drinking though, my sense of my own personal space goes out the window and I probably wouldn't notice or care if some complete stranger sat on my lap. That hapened once, and that was amusing, but thats another story. As for why I've gone out of my way, its cuz of my best friend, who also happens to be the bane of my life. He hugs me, he'll wrestle me, he even once grabbed my crotch during the superbowl (wtf). But god fucking forbid natural body contact- as an example, we were watching Iron Skies tonight, and his foot barely touched my leg and all of a sudden he was completely shifting the way he sits and wouldn't look me in the eye for a few minutes. But then again he used the word fabulous to describe himself twice today, and wants a boa now that I explained what a Liberace was. I've decided he is secretly a lesbian, because he is terrified of dicks. But anyways, because of all that akwardness I get from him physicaly, I've had to condition myself for that kind of crap by becoming a touchy person. Somehow all my fake touching has convinced people I'm secretly nice. This has become a rambly drunkpost, my bad.

 

I haven't any notion of what ought to be "normal" and what ought to be "weird"

- but I can say I'm incredibly jealous of your being so open and willing to do such.

I couldn't possibly view it as anything but a positive trait.

 

I touch my friends in the typical bro'mantic sort of way. We hug, my friends pet each other in solice, and I rub Robert's butt a lot... Yup, completely normal. ^^ There used to be a lot of dry-humping until they found out that I am homosexual, then I sort of cut it off on my own, just out of respect. :icon_bigg