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View Poll Results: hug with full length back rub is...
platonic 5 22.73%
not platonic 11 50.00%
not sure 6 27.27%
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-26-2013, 07:54 AM
 
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It means you overanalyze small gestures that others don't even think twice about.
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Old 09-26-2013, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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If you hug someone goodbye and they rub your back from your upper back down to the waist is that considered a not platonic hug?
You're attempting to read way too much into this. Treat it as you would any other hug.
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Old 09-26-2013, 09:03 AM
 
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No romantic meaning. Hugs vary significantly with culture, gender, age and situation.
Most likely it's a sort of comforting hugging. Those are sometimes given to comfort a distressed other person, such as when a parent hugs a crying child or when a friend hugs another who is upset over a social matter.


+1

This goes back to the mentality that some people think no mattter what someone does, "She WANTS me. "
Riiiiiiiiiight romeo.
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Old 09-26-2013, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Katonah, NY
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It means you overanalyze small gestures that others don't even think twice about.
Pretty much.
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Old 09-26-2013, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Reno, NV
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If they keep going and grab your ass, then it's non-platonic.
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Old 09-26-2013, 09:34 AM
 
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If you hug someone goodbye and they rub your back from your upper back down to the waist is that considered a not platonic hug?
Could be. I often rub up and down someone's back if it is a tight hug. Usually if they are sad or I am happy. If its an uncomfortable standoffish hug, I just pat.

Did they dry hump your leg while rubbing your back? If a hug is more than platonic I normally will hump the leg as I rub the back.
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Old 09-26-2013, 09:43 AM
 
Location: Katonah, NY
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Could be. I often rub up and down someone's back if it is a tight hug. Usually if they are sad or I am happy. If its an uncomfortable standoffish hug, I just pat.

Did they dry hump your leg while rubbing your back? If a hug is more than platonic I normally will hump the leg as I rub the back.
Really? I just stick my finger... Nevermind....
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Old 09-26-2013, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Gaston, South Carolina
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...this just happened to me today. I hung out with a girl I hadn't seen in a couple years, but she's in a ltr. I gave her an innocent hug bye and she hugged back that way with the rub down my back, like you'd do to someone you like more than friends.
1.) You haven't seen her in a couple of years
2.) She's in a LTR
3.) And after seeing her, then she decides to give you the sign that she wants more than friendship.



Think logically much? If there was really something more in her hug than see you later, I think you would have known way before the hug goodbye.
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Old 09-26-2013, 10:07 AM
 
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Did she put her tongue in your mouth? Did she put her hands "under the belt"? Did she......

What you experienced was probably how she hugs her grandmother.

You're special!
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Old 09-26-2013, 10:10 AM
 
Location: Canada
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1.) You haven't seen her in a couple of years
2.) She's in a LTR
3.) And after seeing her, then she decides to give you the sign that she wants more than friendship.



Think logically much? If there was really something more in her hug than see you later, I think you would have known way before the hug goodbye.
^^^This.
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