hugging your friends is so nice….like i was hugging my one friend from behind this one time and then like my other friend who’s like the Epitome of Toxic Masculinity (but he’s working on fixing that) saw that and asked for a hug too so i hugged him and he was like “oh…oh shit, this feels so nice, i haven’t actually hugged anyone besides my girlfriend in the past ten years i think” and now i hug him everyday
unrelated but he also really wanted to change his phone background to this really cute fanart of the teenage mutant ninja turtles but didnt because he also wanted to keep of a picture of his girlfriend as his background. like i used to hate this boy but like HOW can i when all he wants out of life is nice hugs and to love his girlfriend and to change all the internalized negative lessons his father taught him about what it means to be a man. he’s trying.