Does your family show affection to each other? Hugs, kisses and "I love you!
Question:
Does your family show affection to each other? Hugs, kisses and "I love you's"?
My family was never affectionate but you knew the love was "in the air."
Answers: Yes. And I will tell you why. We weren't affectionate but like your family knew it was "in the air". Then my youngest sister took her own life and we realized that we would never again have the opportunity to hug her or tell we loved her. It absolutely changed our lives and family. Also, I am a trauma nurse and when working with a mother who's daughter had just died in a crash, she told me "never let your kids walk away from you without giving them a hug and telling them that you love them. So I don't. Yes very much Naw not really. If anything, it seemed to be words of criticism. nope my family is far from it, we love each other but just don't show it. i am going to start with my kiddos. when i drop off my 4 yr old son at school he has to hug and kiss and he sometimes say he loves me, i will keep it going forever! my family has always been moderately affectionate. Unfortunately, my husband is not at all affectionate with me, and I miss it! My family is the same. We were never all huggy & kissy like some families are. But, we all love each other & thats implicit. my parents were a little. My wife, me and our kids are very affectiontive towards each other. Family is all we really have. Lots of hugs and smoochies in my family! nope...
not even in the air... My family has always been openly affectionate with each other. We always greeted each other with hugs and kisses wherever we met and were not afraid to say I"I love you" in front of anyone. Both of my parents are dead now for several years leaving only my brother and I. Thinks are much different now. He could care less if I lived another day in his precious world. But I don't let it bother me that he is such a horse's ***. I figure it to be his loss. I really looked up to him as my older brother and I think he is quite talented. I would love to be spending time with him and his family on a regular basis, but he prefers to treat me as though I do not exist. He can live in his great big delusion. I do not care. I love me and I am sorry he cannot. But like I said, his loss. My youngest daughter is 21. She has never known a day without hugs and I love yous.
My childhood was quite different. I never heard an I love you or do I remember a hug. My daughter knows that I love her better than she knows anything else. She told me so!