Err....tell her you don't like it and that you want her to stop. Tell her that if she doesn't stop, you won't either. Then if she keeps doing it, walk away. Who needs friends who disrespect you anyway? It may be small, but if it bothers you enough to post it here, then it's important enough.
I had a phase where I'd do that occasionally, I don't know why. I mean, smack a guy across the shoulder lightly, if he did/said something silly or whatever. I realised I didn't like what I was doing (it was obviously something subconscious and complicated that I won't get into now), and then I stopped myself doing it. I don't do it anymore. And you're right, no-one likes getting hit, even if it is playfully.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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