Dealing with displays of affection

CITW - Did you somehow turn off PMs?

KvotheTheRaven wrote:How do you react when someone shows you affection?

I generally cringe and feel very uncomfortable unless I have made an affectionate gesture first and its in response to that.

I react appropriately for the situation. Sometimes it just looks weird to me... like "Why are they doing that!?. I just go with the flow.. and oddly I really don't mind when acquaintances hug me.. it happens more often than I'd prefer.. but when I think about it.. it's kind of a compliment I guess lol In like a strange human sort of way.

I really don't like people in my personal space and certainly don't care for being touched, non-sexually. The only exception is my FP (favorite person), she can hug me all she wants!

jabberwocky wrote:FP (favorite person)

FP? Is this a new term you've made up? Does she know you call her "FP?"

Sturm88 wrote:

jabberwocky wrote:FP (favorite person)

FP? Is this a new term you've made up? Does she know you call her "FP?"

She knows lol. She doesn't seem to mind too much, if I behave myself.

Turns out I suck at this.

Sturm88 wrote:

jabberwocky wrote:FP (favorite person)

FP?

It's a borderline term

Detecting factitious displays of affection from kilometeters away.

i feel cringed when other people are showing affection to each other. can those effers get a room or what?! hugging in GD public. lord christ, you would think they were running a sex commune. i'm being totally serious. i recently saw a trifecta hug that left me curious if the male was a drug lord purely because of the hug and half lidden eyes.

-- Wed Aug 01, 2018 2:01 pm --

people showing ME affection?! that doesn't happen. people quickly realize i'm against it and become too self conscious to perform those sex acts in public with an unwilling, judgmental partner. i generally flinch away from my mothers accidental touch.

I also am not a fan of PDA.

Something happened along the lines of this topic tonight, although far more inappropriate than just normal displays of affection and the more that I think about it, the more disturbing it seems to me that they have been planning it for a while.

From now on for all intents and purposes I am asexual and aromantic unless on a rare occasion I make it clear otherwise.