I had never given this any thought until recently. I went to the movies with a good friend. We are both married males so I was not thinking of any sort of 'spacing' rules. I assumed that he was going to sit next to me so that we could MST3K the movie if it sucked or some such thing. He sat down with an empty seat between us. When I asked him about the space, he told me that he didn't want people to think that we were gay and seeing the movie together.
It totally threw me off because it was so unexpected coming from him. All of the "Guy-Space" rules mentioned before are all accurate regarding strangers but I have never thought about them in regards to a friend.
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