Beckxy - your predicament is the main reason I don't do more posts, I live in dread of my instructor reading my ramblings and guessing it's me. Just to return to the issue, my instructor is quite touchy feely, but I actually quite like it as a teaching style. I am quite prickly about intimacy and introverted, so it just goes to show that each relationship is different and each person in question must put out feelers to guage whether or not their behaviour is well-received. Or maybe it's just about the role of the flying instructor; I crave his approval in whatever form it comes!