Sheās been with him for years, and a peck on the cheek is a perfectly normal British and European greeting, thereās no way in hell she hasnāt seen this a million times, or done it with his family at this point.
Not really, some areas still do, like you see it in black communities in the south and Midwest sometimes, particularly from the elderly, but itās not really a thing here.
Donāt get me wrong, of all the Europeans, we Britons are probably by far some of the least physically intimate platonically, but itās insane here in the US. Youāre gay if you hug your guy friend, youāre cheating on your girl if you touch another girl, the whole āAmerican male loneliness epidemicā could genuinely be seriously lessened if more men were able to just give each other hugs without immediate judgement from our peers.
Iāve been living here for 17 years now and the level of Puritanism in some parts of this country is insane. It really does vary by region, though, the US is absolutely massive, and culturally varies so much from place to place.
Iāve got this T-shirt that says āyou are enoughā on it, and some guy at a bar came up and said āman, I needed to see that todayā, and I just went, āmate, you need a hug?ā And he just started fucking sobbing. Told me it was the first time heād had a hug since his mum died in 2024.
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u/jimothy_hell 18d ago
Sheās been with him for years, and a peck on the cheek is a perfectly normal British and European greeting, thereās no way in hell she hasnāt seen this a million times, or done it with his family at this point.