Did your parents hug you as a child?

[robin1128]

I really can't remember my parents hugging me as a chid but I knew they loved me very much and still do. But I sure thy did I just don't remember.

[shernajwine]

Wow, I find that strange. Not to be insulting though. If you know your parents love you that's the important thing. But then again I come from a very affectionate family, my mom and dad hugged and kissed us all the time and I hug and kiss my babies constantly. Sometimes against their will LOL. My son will be trying to play his video games and he isn't much in the mood for mommy kisses but he humors me.

It's hard for me to imagine not having that??? But I was shocked that my husband never hugs his dad. He always shakes his hand....I asked him what the hell was wrong with him when we first started dating and I noticed this lol. Also, he says he can't really remember his parents being affectionate with him when he was younger.

I guess I just come from a different world where that's concerned. 

[dreamyxo]

Yes they hugged me.  My family has no problem showing affection.  Even as a adult I hugged my parents.  When we greet other family members we always hug.

[medule]

nope...i didnt very many hugs from my parents...but all of the others in my family did

[willow80834]

nope not a hug not a love you not a great job...  Maybe that is why I tell my kids DAILY even though they are adults how much i love and appreciate them and dole out hugs and kisses every chance i get!

[munitono]

Nope. My parents never hugged me when I was a little or once I grew up either until I moved to the states. It's  not because they don't love me, it's just kind of culture (Japanese). I've never heard them saying "I love you" to me either. In English I don't feel it's awkward to say or being told "I love you" but in Japanese I feel very weird to be told "I love you"  especially if my parents do. Just a cultural difference. But I'm raising my girl in the American way. I give her hugs & kisses constantly and she gives me them too and I love it!

[frozenimage]

Only my mother did. My father was one of those people that would rather do something more productive than that :-

[shernajwine]

I just don't get that. Parents not hugging their kids. I know I already posted that but reading more and more posts of people saying they didn't get hugs. I find that shocking. I just don't get it 

[lannl]

No, no hugs as a child. mother and father divorced. mainly i served as a servant for my mother. Did all the housework, was not allowed much of a social life. i thought i was in some kind of hell.

[lgemini]

No, my mother did not hug me as a child.  My mother have six kids.   I do think she thought it matters, but I know it does.  I need to hug my kids and tell them I love them everyday.   If you do not tell them or show them how much you love them, your kids will do the same to their kids.   I know that my grandmother did not hug my mother and my mother did not hug us, but that where it stops.  There is nothing wrong with hugs. I love them so much.

[rockeledjones]

There were some hugs and kisses, but the majority of my hugs came from other relatives likes aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

[gaylasue]

Yes.  But I think I get more hugs now that we are older....

[texaswhiterose]

I got hugs from my mom all the time. Not so much from dad. My dad was raised without affection so that is just the way he was with his kids. I always felt the love lacking between him and I when I was a kid but I know now that he loved me very much he just didn't know how to show it. shernajwine? You were a very luck little girl. You had all the love and affection a child needs but it is a little closed minded of you to assume everyone gets the same.

[articx]

No, I did not get hugs from my mother or father. I got hugs from my aunt, but those stopped when I grew up.

[sdecaro558]

Yes, got hugs and kisses from pretty much my whole family.  I don't know why those displays of affection would ever be a bad thing; it was a sign of the love we had for each other, and still do.