It’s always been true that some families are more physically affectionate than others. But what happens when some family members want to be touchy-feely, while others want to draw boundaries against ...

Jeannie Mai’s latest, sweet video with daughter Monaco has parent-shamers up in arms, since she kissed her daughter on the lips. On Feb 21, Mai shared a video of herself and her daughter Monaco ...

Apart from following customs with murky origins, what’s the reasoning behind giving someone a New Year’s kiss? This kiss is part of both English and German folklore, which “indicate that whoever a ...

A kiss on the lips doesn't always mean romantic love. Some kisses can be confusing, entangle emotions, or happen without a formal relationship. When someone kisses you on the lips without being in a ...

A kiss may be on your list as one of the best things in life. But have you ever thought about how kissing evolved in the first place into such a meaningful activity for humans? After all, even though ...

(CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19 th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his ...

The former soccer player shares four children with wife Victoria Beckham Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Kissing is not universal among human beings and, even today, there are some cultures that have no place for it. This suggests that it is not innate or intuitive, as it so often seems to us. One ...

Why is swapping saliva something all human societies have normalised? Turns out kissing isn't just a human thing — all sorts of species appear to kiss, and new research suggests Neanderthals did it ...

I am happily married to my husband of 16 years. I have known my in-laws since high school and they are lovely, kind people. In the past five to six years, my father-in-law has started adding a kiss ...

DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law is living with us, and she and my husband are very good friends. They are a lot alike. They’re outgoing and they’re huggers and they talk a lot. I feel like a third wheel ...