8 Struggles Of People Who Hate Affection

Having friends if you don’t like affection is a very scary thing indeed. Constantly required to show your approval of your relationships, you are forced time and again to come up with ingenious ways to make your friends feel better about themselves without actually having to touch them. It’s a tough world out there. If you’re overly-affectionate, take some time out to think of those who aren’t. Living in a world with a case of the feels is not all fun and games and if you hate hugging, this one’s for you.


8. Having Overly Affectionate Friends

Let’s face it; most people these days are huggers. There must have been something in the water. If, by some strange phenomenon, you don’t like hugging, having friends who constantly want to touch you can be very unnerving. You like them and all that; you just don’t want to touch them.


7. Having To Wear Armour As Fashion Accessories

You layer yourself up in spiky belts and metallic accessories just to put people off touching you. If they won’t take your protestations seriously, you have to get a little more blatant about it.


6. Relating To Cactuses As Your Spirit Animal

You wish, like cactuses, you came with a “do not touch” label, that was to be used at all times. You feel such affection for the little plants that sometimes, you’re tempted to touch one to show it how you feel.


5. Instantly Punching Someone Who Touches Your Bare Skin

Your gut reaction is to hit whoever tries to touch you without a full and proper warning. You’ve punched your close friends so many times that they wouldn’t even dream of gesturing towards you, for fear of how you would react.


4. Being Told You’re Cruel And Cold

People assume that, because you hate all forms of personal contact, you’re a cold person who doesn’t love anyone. In fact, you’re all marshmallow and goo inside; it’s just that no-one can get past your hard exterior.


3. The Pain Of Loving An Affectionate Person

If, by some miracle, you have managed to find someone who you actually love, you’re normally cursed with the fact that they’re overly affectionate. Finding middle ground with them is almost impossible; you never want to touch while they never want to be apart. It makes for an interesting relationship.


2. The Pain Of Having To Share A Bed

There is nothing worse than having to share a bed with another human being. No mattress will ever be big enough and if they even brush your leg when you’re sleeping, you have a full on meltdown.


1. Having To Pose For Group Pictures

Photographs are your number one enemy and being forced to squeeze into a frame is like fresh hell. You try and grimace your way through it, but when the pictures come back, your pain is pretty clear for everyone to see.