I am new here and i am so sorry that you are feeling this way. I wish i could just give you a hug now to make you feel better. It is very hard being away from family and makes you sad. Hug to you!!!!

i always have a deep feeling of loneliness and want for some kind of interaction a hug a touch anything but i feel lonely and hollow on the niside, so i understand

Hi there i kno how you feel , i dont have 3 brotherz and a horrible older sister who i dont speak to. Im fortunate to have my daughter who im close too, I usually get a hug off her and me 2 Sons.

I get that. It's hard to deal with but if you are spiritual you can try to fill yourself up during meditative moments. I don't have anyone and so I need to bring the feeling for myself. It's a challenge but if you open yourself to the warmth that exists all around us.

sorry if I sound obnoxious here.

Sometimes yeah, although I miss giving one as much as getting one if that makes sense.

I get that feeling a lot. I took hugs and physical contact with others for granted whe I had it. I never realized how important it is.

No, I can't imagine feeling this way.

I have spent 4 years learning how to be a best friend to myself.

Other people do not control my happiness.

Yes!!! Hugs to you natalieo! I have a deep longing for FAMILY, that place of sanctity, of safeness, of trust, where we can rest, relax, be stupid, if we so choose, without fear of censorship or retalliation of any kind.

While we can simply be "me in my own space", there is something about the comfort of family.

My sisters and I get along very well, but we live in different cities and are always working. My parents live close. One on one with me, and we get along fine. Put the 3 of us together and it's a difficult dynamic. My mother's hyper, workaholic, leap-frogs easily from one subject to another and yet is extremely analytical, my dad is a bit more relaxed, more of a linear surface-oriented thinker, more methodical but equally intense and equally obsessive-compulsive.

My brother used to be the one who levelled us all out. Now he's no longer here, deceased, so my family and I have been feeling and acting a bit more wacky, to say the least.

Yes, I'd like to chill with someone like you!

I sort of have eperienced that before, it got alot better in time and I actually found a new meaning to who I thought I am or was.

In simple english, I"m glad you expressed yourself and hope if it made you feel better you'll do it more often.

I am currently surrounded by people I have no desire to hug, so I actually am feeling like a hug would be the last thing I would want from a person. My version of giving a person a hug who isn't a big hugger is to give them a hug from a distance by staying away from them. Everyone deserves and needs more hugs.

Here's a hug from me.

This is a good topic. I wish I had the cahonies to go out and test it. On a street, with a sign that says Free hugs. Dropping a coin in my hat for each person that has a need for a hug too. Kinda in a "Pay it forward" experience.

I wonder of the amount of coins I would have after a couple hours?
How many people would take the hug offered and feel better for it?

More importantly, how would I feel after those same affirmations?

Wow, thanks for all the replies! Happinesssought: I also don't really like hugging people. Especially people who I have just met. It takes a special bond for me to actually want to hug someone. And not that one armed, half hug.
I actually have I picture I will post on my profile of me holding a sign saying "free hugs"...only, it is in Danish. I did it along with some students, to put me out of my comfort zone, It went well. Of course there are people who try to avoid eye contact, but then there were people who would come back for seconds.

What I am really looking for though, is someone who knows how I am feeling, the situations I am in, and just want to comfort me for as long as I like. My parents know me so well, and I think that is part of the reason why I miss their hugs so much.

I spent time this afternoon , drawing on my computer the Free hugs idea. I could read your sign(old eyes) Gratis Knus?

Here short cut to my pic. (I drew with me mouse in paint)


http://www.dailystrength.org/people/2543634/photos-videos/0

Now more than ever in my life, do I feel this way. I think I got spoiled by my roommate who is a very affectionate person and would go around hugging everyone for no reason. No that she's moved out, it makes me realize how very little physical contact I've had in my entire life.

I also don't want hugs from strangers or people I'm not particularly close to. My personal bubble is pretty wide if I don't know you. It took me a while to even get comfortable with random roommie hugs. I really just wish I had a close relationship with someone who could just hug me for while and make everything feel like it's going to be ok. I don't have anyone in my life that I'm that close to.

Jewells1: It looks great! I can't believe you did that on paint. All I can draw if a stick person and even that is hard! ;) Yes, the sign says "Gratis Knus", now you know a little Danish.

Tehdreamer: I am glad you can relate - well, not glad, because I know how crappy this feels, but I hope you know what I mean. I too, need a someone who is close, and will just hug me. I wish you luck on finding that special hugging friend, for I am on that quest as well. =)