The handshake has served as the traditional male-to-male greeting for hundreds of years because it is straightforward, and in its early days, practical. A man extended his hand to show he was not ...

A Canadian woman was so desperate to hug her mother during quarantine that she created a “hug glove” using a clear tarp with sleeves so the women could hug through the plastic. A video of two young ...

Hugs have been a big part of showing you care since practically forever, but they’ve unofficially been banned among people outside the same household ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started. But when ...

In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, one of the characters Sammy explained, “What I’m saying is all I really want is someone to hold me and tell me that everything is going to be all right.” Well, ...

When I was growing up, my family routinely told me to “give Grandma a kiss” or “hug your uncle goodbye.” At the time, I never resisted these directions—or even thought all that much about them; to do ...

Always read the fine print. One moment you're enjoying a free hug and the next you are being taxed with a quick jab to the face. That seems to be the mark-up for a warm embrace in New York City where ...

Something in me recoils when I saw the hugging reaction emoji that was recently added to Facebook posts. Rather than liking a post, you now get to send an “I care” message by clicking the icon that ...