Is hugging considered cheating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My ex and the AP used to hug in front of me all the time.

Remember when Bill Clinton hugged Monica Lewinsky in public? It was a little too familiar of a hug.

I am a petite woman. I absolutely HATE when men I work with have obvious disdain for a woman at work and then will give her a great big bear hug in public at a work event or work conference.

It's a power play. Tell your DH to keep his paws to himself and spare his female coworkers or neighbors the bear hugs.

[Anonymous]

Hugging- no, hugging with kiss- yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This will probably be controversial, but I think hugging (long hug) instead of something more sexual is not cheating and is an honest way of saying to the potential AP that you acknowledge the attraction but nothing sexual is going to happen. As a spouse, i would wish it had not happened but I also would be appreciative that nothing sexual happened. I don't think I would be angry.

My feeling about monogamy is that it involves self restraint, not necessarily the shutting off of all attraction for others, which realistically is not possible for some people.

I have never thought about it this way with regard to a hug that maybe lingers, but it makes a lot of sense.

I have a colleague with whom there is clear chemistry. We are both also happily married and occasionally talk positively about our spouses. We have never discussed marital issues with each other or anything that would violate our relationship with our spouses. We do hug a little tighter than most people when we see each other in person (a few times a year). There is something there that acknowledges our closeness and also puts a boundary on it

You like playing with fire.

[Anonymous]

Huh? I hug friends, good neighbors, relatives, co-workers I’ve worked with for years when I see them.

I’m as monogamous as they come. Hugging is equivalent to kissing the cheeks like Europeans to me. I’m not grinding my genitals on them.

[Anonymous]

Eating ain’t cheating

[Anonymous]

Definitely. Unless you do a chaste side hug like the Duggars. If your genitals are less than a foot apart, you might as well be having sex.

[Anonymous]

Hugging is now cheating? LOL, next anytime a man speaks to a women how's not his wife it'll be cheating. The bar keeps getting set lower and lower. Just don't be in a relationship.

[Anonymous]

Did you rub your moneymaker against him during the hug? What about a quick hand search for the Beast from Below?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hugging- no, hugging with kiss- yes

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hugging is now cheating? LOL, next anytime a man speaks to a women how's not his wife it'll be cheating. The bar keeps getting set lower and lower. Just don't be in a relationship.

It can be

[Anonymous]

I've engaged in a few hugs that my wife would definitely consider cheating, even though I didn't even kiss her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've engaged in a few hugs that my wife would definitely consider cheating, even though I didn't even kiss her.

Yeah if hugging is cheating I’m a harlot

[Anonymous]

I am going to extend my hugs and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of hugging are we talking about?

Just a fun hypothetical to throw out there today!

-Op

[Anonymous]

If it can't cause pregnancy it's not cheating.