Kissing family members on the lips. - Now before anyone jumps to any conclusions I mean a little pop kiss on the lips. From what I understand it is normal as a greeting, or saying goodbye, but I'm not entirely sure.



Do you do this? If you don't mind sharing, what country you live in, or at the very least is it a common thing where you live.





My family does not do this, but I think my husband's mother's side of the family does. One say my mother in law kissed my sons on the lips as a goodbye. I told her to stop it. I don't want my kids to get used to that. It started getting weird when my 2 year old kept trying to kiss me in the lips. I said no, and made him kiss me on the cheek. Now he kisses on the cheek.
I feel kisses on the lips are just for people in romantic relationship, but that was how I was raised. I accept that other families do this, I just don't want anyone kissing me, or my kids on the lips as a greeting.
I live in America, and I don't think it's that common to kiss family on the lips. Maybe it depends on what state you live in, but for the most part I can say in Not always sunny Florida, it doesn't seem to happen here.

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i don't even hug them. bleh

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I live in America. (California, to be exact.) Lots of Americans I know kiss their family members on the lips, just as much as the number who don't do it.

Coming from strictly Asian backgrounds, the answer would be strictly no. I didn't grow up showered with that kind of affection, so I never had to deal with puckering in-laws. The extended family are satisfied with me offering a proper "Wai" (on the dad's side), or a repective bow (on the mom's), and keeping quiet and at a discreet distance, so as to be within earshot in case they needed something, but not close enough to where I could join in the conversation. I think that lack of affection may be more cause for complaint for me than having an innocent kiss planted on the lips by a two-year old. Though I think it would be very, very awkward if that same child tried to kiss me when he's 16.

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I live in America. My parents are from the south, but my siblings and I were born in California and we all moved to Georgia about 12 years ago. We do kiss each other on the lips, but as we've gotten older we kiss more on the cheeks. The only people I kiss on the lips now are my sisters, my mom, and my nieces and nephews who are 8 and under. I don't kiss my dad and brother on the lips anymore; I guess as I grew older it got more inappropriate. Distant relatives and friends are strictly cheeks only. We do sometimes kiss people as a greeting even if we don't know them all to well, but only if they kiss our cheeks first (they're usually much older women). I don't think kissing on the lips is very common here, though. I remember in 7th grade my mom dropped me off at school and I kissed her on the lips to say goodbye. When I greeted some of my friends that were also getting dropped off they asked me if I kissed my mom on the lips; I said "yes" and they looked at me funny.

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I live in Canada (have lived in Saskatchewan, B.C., Alberta, Ontario). I don't know of anyone doing it here except for very little kids. Quebecois will commonly do the cheek double-kiss. Weirded me out the first time because I didn't know what he was trying to do.

I kissed my parents like that when I was a kid but not anymore. That's normal in my family. (I'm from northeast/midwest USA) I don't think a peck on the lips is something that has to be reserved for romance, but if you teach them that, they'll probably come to feel the same way you do. I don't think they'll be harmed either way. I think it's cute when they're willing to kiss you at that age, because they invariably grow out of it. Well at least where I'm from it's something that's typically grown out of.

im from malaysia, lip kissing is restricted to romantic couples only. and pda is very frowned upon, so you hardly see those either between couples, those are restricted behind closed doors. my extended family have cheek kissing, but only to same gender.

Im from cali and my family members do kiss. For my aunt(one aunt only) and my mom, I kiss on the cheek, and only kiss on the lips for my family that are still young. I dont see it as a big problem. Im not weirded out by it for young kids but for older ones i am, mostly because as we grow older, my family members arent as pda affectionate as when i was a little girl. At the same time i dont think it's reserved for romantic relationships only.

I live in the US but I'm of Asian descent. My family doesn't even hug each other whenever we meet much more kissing. But I do vaguely remember that I once kissed my mom on the lips when I was younger because I was imitating a kid on a television show. I can't remember what she said or did after but I must have been told not to because I never did it again.

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I'm from the US as well, in the southeast (ugh), and I now live in Massachusetts. I have seen one family that does lip-kissing in the South and am not particularly weirded out by it, but most families around there don't, and I have seen absolutely no families in Massachusetts do it.

Full disclosure: I have once kissed my mom on the lips to imitate bugs bunny, when I was like 4, lol.

I'm from New York (Russian, Irish, English, Canadian, German). Mostly kissing on the lips occurs with younger relatives or young kids of close friends. It's innocent. As I grew up I did it less with close family and never with extended family or friends. Now we just kiss on the cheek or hug. I say kiss on the cheek but it's probably closer to a cheek brush with a kissy face (lipstick and all that). It's common to greet friends of friends that way too even if it's our first time meeting also with in-laws or meeting a relative/friends' gf or bf. I'd say the cheek brush kiss is the most common where I'm from but that is mostly between two girls or a guy and a girl. Not between two guys. Just to clarify, it is not appropriate to do this with business associates (unless you're friends as well) or people you are meeting for the first time and have no connection to.

It's about what kind of relationship you want with the other person and what you're comfortable with. A cheek kiss/hug means you have or want a close relationship. Whereas a handshake or a wave mean you are not comfortable being that intimate yet or at all.

I'm from Italy, and the answer is no. I don't know anyone who is used to this.

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I still kiss my sisters on the lips. I'm 19 years old and I still hold my older sister's hand when we go places. I'm from the northwest USA and no one really says anything when I do it. I'm of "Asian descent" as people put it, but I was always told to kiss family members when I was younger. Just yesterday my mother told me to give my father a hug and kiss (never on the lips with the men in my family). I feel it's something I'm compelled to do when I feel affection for them.

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I'm from Chile and no, I've never kissed anyone of my family on the lips. I sort of never even thought about doing it. I do know of some people from here that do it though. I guess it's not something that everyone does here, but it's not that weird either.

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