He finds excuses for small touches

Brushing past you instead of going around when there's space. Hand on the small of your back through a doorway. Fingertips on your forearm when he laughs at something you said. Adjusting your shoulder or your collar when it could just as easily have been left alone. These micro-touches are tests — not manipulative tests, but the nervous system's way of checking the temperature of the connection, seeing whether contact is welcomed, gauging how the other person responds. None of it is accidental. The conscious mind might not have planned each touch, but the body is operating according to a logic of its own: get closer, maintain contact, see what happens. The accumulation of small excuses for touch is more meaningful than a single deliberate move, because it shows a persistent orientation toward closing distance rather than a one-time attempt. If you find that the geography of your interactions keeps involving contact that didn't need to happen, you have your answer.