A woman is suing her 12-year-old nephew over a hug that broke her wrist.

She couldn’t even hold her hors d’oeuvres.

You know those hugs you get from your eight-year old nephew when they are really excited to see you? The type when they almost flatten you and knock you over.

Great huh?

All that love and enthusiasm. So many feels.

Except if they break your wrist and you are Jennifer Connell from Manhattan. Then, if your eight-year old nephew flies at you with a great big hug hollering”Auntie Jen I love you” and breaks your wrist as he knocks you over you sue him.

For $175,000.

Right?

The 54-year old human resources manager has taken her nephew, now aged 12, to court claiming he acted unreasonably when he leaped into her arms, causing her to fall on the ground and break her wrist four years ago. Jennifer Connell has asked a six-member Superior Court jury to find the boy liable for his actions.

On the witness stand before the Judge the 54-year-old Aunt testified she loves Sean but believes he should be held accountable for her injury.

The Connecticut Post writes that 12-year old Sean, the only defendant appeared “confused” as he sat with his father, Michael Tarala, in the courtroom. His mother, Lisa Tarala, died last year.

Ms Connell, who has no children herself, just two nephews, told the court that in March 2011 she arrived at her nephew’s 8th birthday party to see Sean happily riding his first ever two-wheeler bike.

As he spotted his Aunt he dropped the bright red bike to the ground and ran to her crying“Auntie Jen, Auntie Jen.”

“All of a sudden he was there in the air, I had to catch him and we tumbled onto the ground,” she testified.

“I remember him shouting, ‘Auntie Jen I love you,’ and there he was flying at me.”

Ms Connell says she didn’t inform anyone at the time that the 22-kilo boy had hurt her.

Not wanting to spoil the party.

“It was his birthday party and I didn’t want to upset him,” she told the jury.

She’s a good Aunt like that.

She testified that the injury though “turned her life upside down.”

“I was at a party recently, and it was difficult to hold my hors d’oeuvre plate,” she said. She says that living three-storeys up is tricky too.

“I live in Manhattan in a third-floor walk-up so it has been very difficult,” she said. “And we all know how crowded it is in Manhattan.”

Ms Connell said Sean had always been “very loving, sensitive,” toward her, but she still feels the pre-teen is responsible.

Her lawsuit claims “The injuries, losses and harms to the plaintiff were caused by the negligence and carelessness of the minor defendant in that a reasonable eight years old under those circumstances would know or should have known that a forceful greeting such as the one delivered by the defendant to the plaintiff could cause the harms and losses suffered by the plaintiff.”

Because as she claims an eight year old boy should know.

Shouldn’t he?