Sometimes that behavior is to prevent claims that the guy is cheating with you.

Sometimes you have to pay someone not to say something stupid about your problems. Certain problems (depression, bipolar, borderline) fall into patterns. Conventional wisdom is oftentimes really, really counterproductive. A licensed professional who can explain what you/your partner/your family member/your friend…

She didn't send the emails from his personal email account.

Right, those articles barely mention his sexuality/motivation/whether or not he had previous affairs/his physicality, and on and on.

No, I am actually commenting on how the emails were discovered. By accident. Not because anyone was looking for motive.

But the problem is, there is almost no coverage of Petraeus equal to that of his affair partner, and even potential affair partner. No one is covering how he acted towards women, even though some articles have briefly mentioned that he may have had other affairs.

Way to miss the point. The one I made was that although there had been a few mentions of other affairs, there has been no coverage of whether there were other affairs.

I actually read in a couple of articles that he had been dogged by rumors of affairs. I have googled "David Petraeus" and affairs, and found nothing.

He's a jerk if he doesn't care that you were upset. There are things that upset my boyfriend that I don't understand, and vice versa. Caring about someone means saying "I'm sorry that was so upsetting," and maybe thinking about the fact that your s.o. probably isn't the only one who feels that way.

Try a friendly, consensual handshake. Or hugging friends. Touching people who do not want to be touched, while standing behind them (which is threatening) is not a way to address the digital chill.

If you raise your hands higher, to about shoulder height (your own) this is much more effective of a way to get through crowds.

You shouldn't be "moving" them, you should be letting them know you are there.

I don't care whether or not every one of them wants to touch my ass. I don't want them touching my lower back. Like the author.

Stop acting like such a jerk. Seriously, throughout this thread, you've been spewing ignorant bile. When so many guys do cop a feel, other guys invading our space becomes LESS AND LESS acceptable. It is creepy as fuck, and you should know that by now, considering how many places you have commented in the damn…

Don't let them accost drunk people? Ugh, you're gross.

Some of us don't want to be touched by strangers. A lot of us. If it is your thing, that being touched with no peremptories is fun for you, fucking yay for you.

I care if the guy is hot. It makes him unhot. It makes my skin crawl. In some situations, it might put him in physical danger because I am ex-military and a LITTLE ON THE HYPERVIGILANT SIDE.

No, it is perfectly polite. It is securing their attention, instead of just groping them. And it is touching them on a neutral area of the body, the shoulder.

Not as ridiculous as it might seem. Rapists often test victims by behaving inappropriately and violating their boundaries. So even if violating physical boundaries wasn't intrinsically disrespectful (and it is) it erodes our abilities to suss out who is and is not a threat.

How do you know how people interpret it? I mean, have you taken an effing poll? I have given dirty looks for that move, but the only time I told a guy off was when he executed a two-hand ass grab.