i would love a hug from my pdoc, but i think it would be so awkward that it would burst my bubble of hug-hope.

i don't think physical contact is a done thing in australia, expect maybe with child psychologists. that's why i wouldn't ask for it. partly, i don't want to be told 'no', and partly, i am worried pdoc would give me a hug anyway even though he is not meant to. i probably enforce the boundaries in our relationship more strictly than he would.