Can’t even properly express: “Mom, I wanna cuddle”

“No, not a 拥抱(hug), CUDDLE 🥺”

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    Not the same word but in the many Filipino dialects, apparently there is no word for hike. All my relatives could only come up with the equivalent for “walk”.

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    I dunno, I’ve never cuddled anyone in public.

    May just be a language difference without any underlying meaning.

    • No I mean like…

      I never saw my parents hug… never saw them kiss… not even at home.

      Don’t think they even have sex, I suspect the only two times they ever fucked was to procreate… to create my brother and me.

      Literally their room is open and I could just walk in, and as a kid I go sleep in their bed a lot.

      So no, they didn’t have sex, because if they did, I would’ve had accidentally barged in and saw it.

      Maybe this is why they argue a lot lol, lack of sex…

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        Is this something you can talk your parents about? They’re kinda the only ones that can answer why

        • Oh okay, so I’m gonna walk downstairs to the living room and be like: “點解你哋唔 性交?”

          💀

          Nah its… how do I explain it…

          Like there’s this atmosphere, this “vibe” that like… it doesn’t feel as open as a westerm family is.

          Like I never even seen any thing remotely resembling a “sex scene” in Chinese tv shows, that just to show you what the culture is like.

          It’s gonna be so awkward to ask it lmao.

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      Typically something you do lying down, or sitting. All of these are cuddling:

      Hugs can be a part of cuddling, but cuddling is more than a hug.

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      Cuddling takes longer than hugging, it’s like an extended hug. The -le suffix in English is often frequentative, so sparkle meant “to emit many sparks”, for example.