Touch Boundaries

I debated with myself today another identifier of relational closeness.

The car goodbye. I was saying bye to someone this afternoon who, at a social function the normal goodbye would have been a hug.

However, this was a lunch meeting that ended with me being dropped off at the Seminary.

This brought the car goodbye.

A hug in a car requires an entirely different level of closeness. We were not that close. That makes the goodbye awkward.

I don't know what it is about sitting that makes a hug more intimate, but it helps me clearly define another level of intimacy with those around me.