Flirty best guy friend

[confused21]

I've been close friends with this guy for almost 1 1/2 years. Only in the last couple months since he started dating someone he's always engaging in some sort of physical (non sexual) contact with me. He wants shoulder massages, wrestles with me, pokes me on the side, etc. Any ideas on why he is doing this though he is in a relationship? His g/f knows about me and that he hangs out with me.

[Zekk_T_Strife]

Sounds like me. I've been best friends with a girl for around 5 years now. For the first year we were super close but not touchy at all, the next two we werent so close, but the past two years I find that we both do a LOT of non-sexual touching. I dunno if it's a flirty kind of thing necessarily, I think it's just kind of like we're so close that we literally attract and want to be closer to each other. She has a boyfriend and everything, it's not anything to worry about. Your just a very essential part of his life and he likes being close to you, its a natural thing.