My parents never kissed me on the lips. They were affectionate but they just didn’t express it like that. When my Aunty kissed me on the lips while saying “goodnight” during a sleepover when I was just a kid, and then proceeded to give each of her children a big smacko on the lips too, I was shocked but also thought it was hilarious.
In my family, it just wasn’t done.
To kiss or not to kiss on the lips? Parents and children alike have been debating its appropriateness for years and now new controversy has been stirred by a reality show in the UK which showed a grown man kissing his mum on the lips. Some saw it as sweet, but others were left feeling uncomfortable.
Confessions: The first thing I thought when I saw my baby:
Firstly let me quickly explain who these people are.
Sam Faiers is one of the stars of popular “scripted reality” show called The Only Way Is Essex, commonly referred to as TOWIE. She recently documented her pregnancy, birth and first few weeks of motherhood for ITV in the UK in a show called Sam Faiers: The Baby Diaries.
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Yep, we wont men to be more open emotionally, but don't kiss a relative, don't look at a child, don't offer to help a strange female in need of help...you sexual deviant bruts. But please, please, be emotionally sensitive and open.
My husbands family do it. I think it is bordering on incestuous. They are fairly controlling so it probably adds to my discomfort. I ignore this as long as my husband doesn't end up with cold sores etc... I draw the line at them doing it with my children. I really think it should be for couples. I have had male family friends try and do it and I just say I only kiss my partner. Some people have no boundaries and really I wonder if someone feels the need to do it what image are they trying to portray and as I have learnt in time my husbands family puts on a wonderful front out socially but behind closed doors lives a dysfunctional family one I don't want my children to think is normal behaviour. We no longer have to live in the 1950s. No ones life is perfect and the ones who appear that way are often far from it.