Kissy-face couples in restaurants/bars: Annoying or sweet?

[Anonymous]

Affection is fine, including a kiss or affectionate touch. Tongues and groping is not fine. There’s a line.

[Anonymous]

Not my business but I am sometimes kissy face in restaurants. I love my partner.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re very kissy in bars/restaurants. Married almost 8 years, 2 kids. Sorry if you’re seated near us at Black Salt or Off The Record next weekend.

Totally gross! People are trying to eat in those establishments. So low class.

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Anonymous wrote:How often do you see this?

More frequently then you’d think...or maybe I just notice it more than the average person.

I can think of three times in recent history. But, it just happened on Friday, so it’s fresh in my mind.

Where do you live? I'm in DC and I can count the number of times I've seen this in DC in the last 10 years on one hand.

DP. I am in DC and see it all the time. Live downtown. Standing in line at a Smithsonian museum, etc. Just gross. These are adults not teens doing this in front of kids.

Those are tourists.

[Anonymous]

I can’t recall the last time I saw it. If you see it often, go somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hugging and kissing in public is weird to you guys? No wonder all the other threads are about your marriages being on the rocks...

Usually it is the people acting overly affectionate in public, on Facebook, etc...that have relationships on the rocks. It’s like they are trying to overcompensate for a troubled relationship. Just gross.

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Anonymous wrote:Hugging and kissing in public is weird to you guys? No wonder all the other threads are about your marriages being on the rocks...

They are obviously unmarried couples out on a date or on their second day together having brunch.

As a married person who is affectionate in public, at home, and everywhere in between, who knows.

Why so needy? So unattractive & yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:Hugging and kissing in public is weird to you guys? No wonder all the other threads are about your marriages being on the rocks...

They are obviously unmarried couples out on a date or on their second day together having brunch.

As a married person who is affectionate in public, at home, and everywhere in between, who knows.

+1. Both DH and I are very physically affectionate. If we weren't touching regularly it would mean something was pretty wrong between us. We just want to be connected with touch.

Ewwww. Were you raised in a barn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't care if there is a quick kiss or they are touching hands but when they start making out or are all over each other - you know it is for attention and to have others notice. To me it says these people are not secure in their relationship - hence the need to put on a show so everyone can notice how much they looove each other. It is very immature. You see it most often in teens and adults who haven't really grown up. I think when anyone needs validation from strangers that yes we can see you are all over each other - they are struggling.

I just look away, they can get the attention they crave from others.

This! I just try to hide my cringing face when I look away.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband and I aren’t overly affectionate but we do hold hand or put a hand on a leg or sneak in a kiss when we’re out. I feel like the people who take issue with a little PDA are sad they’re in marriages where the affection is gone.

This is okay and does not appear desperate. At least you are discrete and not grossing out others.

[Anonymous]

Annoying. Socially unaware.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Affection is fine, including a kiss or affectionate touch. Tongues and groping is not fine. There’s a line.

This.

[Anonymous]

We show affection, hold hands, quick kiss...no slobbery making out though.

[Anonymous]

Annoying. But I have to admit it used to be me and DH when we first started dating at 20.

[Anonymous]

Reminds me of how my grandmother would react when people prayed in restaurants. She was very devout, but she adhered to the idea (which is in the Bible, I believe) that true devotion is done in private. Public displays are often the exact opposite.