Introverted runner is a hugger. I feel like hugging does not align with being an introvert but maybe they are not related.
I’m not big on touching people but I love me a good hug. Not the side shoulder crap. I’m talking big smoosh, squeeze hug. Maybe because my circle of people are close that I want them closer. Though I’ve hugged people who I had just met and hugged because they made me happy. I chalk that up to being an empathy thing.
On the other side, I’m stingy about doling out the “I love you”s. My family didn’t do that growing up. We showed our love in other ways and my parents definitely loved me, it was a weird Irish thing. We say it more now but I don’t say it to casual friends. It bothers me to hear people say it freely, it shouldn’t but it does. I hear celebrities throw it out and I hear it as fake. Who am I to judge?
Finally, who doesn’t love a big hug from a little child? The love that oozes from that is so pure.
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