Confession # 31

I miss kissing.

I don't mean deep passionate kissing, I mean just regular kissing like…
-The Roll-Over-in-Bed kiss you give your partner before you get up
-The Gentle-Back-of-the-Neck kiss you get from your partner while you wash dishes
-The Goodbye-Have-a-Good-Day peck you give each other as you both walk out the door
-The Hi Honey! -Lean-Over-Miss-the-Lips-and-Land-Somewhere-on-the-Cheek kiss you get when you come home and you partner is engrossed in the evening news.

All those little kisses that connect and re-connect two people to each other, I miss those.

Kissing is where it all begins. It is big deal to let someone get that close to you; to let someone break that three-foot perimeter of space every person needs to feel safe. It is exciting to share breath, to breathe life into one another. I think kissing is far more intimate that other form of physical expression. Kissing cannot be self-gratified. Kissing takes two. Kissing cannot be faked.

If you ask any woman she will tell you that if her partner were to kiss or have sex with another woman, she would be more upset about the kiss.

The kiss is real the commitment to and reaffirmation of love. When the world gets too busy, and you are too tired for sex, you never forget to kiss.

Yeah! If you were to ask me what the worst thing about being single was, I would say it is the absence of kissing.