I was in a reflective mood recently and thinking back to past relationships and the more intimate and personal moments and I was surprised that in my recollections when it came down to the down and dirty there really wasn’t that much kissing or making out. Most of the making out and such happening back in the early months of the relationship. Whenever something like that would come up it was over really quick or stopped for more intense things.
Regardless of my preamble and exposition, the question is posed to you Dopers who are involved in long term relationships.
Do you still make out like teenagers giving each other hickeys or are those moments rare as hen’s teeth being replaced by sex?
What is it with you and purple?
She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from Arkansas, hence the Joy!
Kissing / making out is rare for me.
But I have issues, so I don’t know if this is typical.
My SO and I don’t often just “make-out” anymore without it evolving into sex…it has kind of turned into foreplay.
I remember those extended make-out sessions…before we had decided to take it “to the next level…”
And I also remember going home pretty horny. 
(He does like to give me hickeys, but only in silly places, just as a joke. I would be pretty pissed if any man purposely gave me a hickey anywhere that anyone could see. It’s so highschool.)
So I guess my answer to the OP is yes, we make out like teenagers, but unlike teenagers, it goes somewhere. 
Sadly no. In a perverse sort of way I rather miss those days of going home with nuts like two ripe grapefruits. There was something about rolling around in the car at the drive-in that’s missing in Ms Hook’s and mine lives now. On the other hand I’ve gotten laid 8-9,000 times in the past 34 years.
Sadly, no. (to follow Sandy Hook’s lead.) We kissed a lot in the courtship stages, but hardly more than a peck on the cheek or a quick lipsmack after a few years. I missed it, but she didn’t much like kissing she said. Looking back: the was the first sign of marital troubles.
After four decades (!!!) with the same SO, I think that the making out consists of little flirtations, and holding hands, and never forgetting to kiss each other when we go to sleep or go off in seperate directions. And I am expected to “cop a feel” every once in a while…at least that’s my excuse. I also make sure I check the SO out visually when given an opportunity…not only for myself, but to make her feel nicely attractive.
The making out part is mostly with the mind. But every once in a while, we really get into the kissing stuff…it is fun!
Whatever gets you there, so long as nobody is left behind.
Still make out. Still grope. Still do all the things we did before we had sex. Only thing that’s changed is that the possibility for sex is there when it once wasn’t.
OH YEAH… we make out just as much and I love it!
OWWWWWWWWW
I just now asked my wife of 38 years if I could give her a hickey.
She stared at me for a few seconds and said " Are you having a stroke"?
I take that to mean NO .
For sure we don’t engage in " making out" like we once did, but I can assure you that we love one another more than ever.
hickeys?
what am i, 14?
Oh yes. Kissing, caressing, fondling, frolicking, the whole works.
Hickeys are gross, but my wife and I still do plenty of preambling, so to speak. Being absolutely crazy about each other still helps, I suppose. 
Hubby and I still make out on a fairly regular basis. It doesn’t even always lead to sex. Sometimes it’s just fun on its own. As for hickeys, I unfortunately bruise very easily, so sometimes they happen accidentally, in the heat of the moment. A few months ago, I was walking across a parking lot with my teenage daughter and a friend of hers. TD says “Mom, what’s that on your neck?” “What?” I respond, honestly perplexed. Friend says “It looks like a bite mark”. TD concurs, much teen giggling ensues. We reach the car, I check it in the vanity mirror, and sure enough. . .
We still make out–in the mornings when there isn’t time to have sex, or while we’re watching TV during a commercial break. It’s kinda fun to fget a bit hot and bothered and then go back to watching Bugffy or the Simpsons.
I wonder if kids don’t make a big difference in this: I find that we tend to do our “heavy petting” in places other than the bedroom, and there is only so much heavy petting you can do in the living room with the kids watching.