Touch is multifaceted; it is used for communicative, explorative, and affective purposes. Neuroaffective and cognitive sciences approach touch by examining its physiological and somatic dimensions. This chapter describes how human touch, language and other modalities are configured in greeting and farewell encounters. It explains how affectionate, compassionate touch is used during soothing, empathetic intertwinings; and how touch accomplishes guidance and instruction across diverse age cohorts. The chapter discusses how forceful, violent touch can become a target of judgement or neutral assessment. A distinctive moral order is indeed implied through reciprocal greetings of talk and gesture in Tzotzil culture. Greetings and farewells in private can extend to the expression of passionate emotions through touch, depending on the cultural and moral ideas of a given society. Haptic greetings and communication through touch generally are important means of communication in atypical conditions. Practices of haptic sociality are often observable in compassionate acts towards someone in distress.