hand holding
last night, a guy entwined his fingers with mine and kept holding on. does that mean anything? or am i simply over analyzing this? the only non-familial person i’ve interlocked my fingers with is my ex, so to me, hand holding is quite an intimate gesture. all of my instincts scream that there’s some emotional reason behind this gesture but this other guy, one who’s had a crush on me for almost two years, insists it means nothing. he says that the other guy likes some other girl. but if he did, would he have held my hand? would he have been hurt at the mention of my ex? would he have protested when another implied that i was his? would he have held me on the ride home?
i know we live in a society where casual sex is a common occurence, but i’m hoping that we aren’t so desensitized to intimacy that hand holding has been reduced to nothing. but i do want to know the truth, even if it’s a truth i’d rather not hear, so is hand holding no longer an intimate act?
