Do married couples kiss?
How did our parents show affection for each other? Karen’s kissed in front of the kids, and still do. Ralph’s parents didn’t show much physical affection for each other when the family was in the same room. It seems that we aren’t trained in American society to think of married couples as lovers. Synonyms for “kiss” in one thesaurus mainly have to do with dating and young people showing affection. The example in our dictionary says “He kissed his mother goodnight.” Not exactly passion. So one function of kissing is for showing affection. Like Fred MacMurray? A few years ago, another couple challenged us to give each other a long kiss when we got home at the end of the day. To kiss like we meant it. That sounded good, so we gave it a try. No matter what was going on we would stop and hug and kiss when we greeted each other. It was a good thing and we still greet with at least a good long hug even if the kiss is short. “Skin-to-skin” time, introduced to us at Fr. Chuck’s “Celebrate Love”
