Hugging is glorious when it's energetically clean - but can feel needy and clingy from people who aren't in their own center. Also an energy vampire favourite.
That said I'm Dutch and we hug and kiss even strangers. 🤣 Living with distant hand-shaking Australians was often a challenge. 🤣
It's funny here in Thailand to hug a trying-to-be-westernized Thai who knows they should hug and TRIES but is just so damn wooden, awkward and withheld in the embrace.
Curious that you define hugging as a humanity-defining trait, tho. My cats hug and cuddle and spoon far more than any people I know. As do koalas and mama birds and pets raised together... even elephants. 😊
Even my chooks appeared to be in a cuddle puddle! A whole new post about animal hugs, perhaps? At least they dont vampire hug...