My friends and I are like that.
“Love you, man! No gay.”
But then, we’re not exactly PC.
Same here. When Rudy was on the island we were all cheering him on because we worked with him and saw him pretty much daily:
“Love you man, but not in a gay way that’s for sure!”
IIRC, the correct term is “Love ya, man - no homo.” :0)
I’m the same way. Dont even hug another man. I’m not phobic on fags, they just make me sick. Just sayin..
Years ago a bear hunter and his son came into our (sons and me) remote camp in the NC mountains waiting for his dogs to return from a run in the forest.
We talked dogs and other stuff as his dogs trickled into camp and we hit it off pretty good. Out of the blue he said, “I don’t know you but I love you and God loves you too”. Simple words that struck me hard has to how strong a man’s faith was that he would say this to strangers.
It’s been 5 or 6 years and there has not been a week that has gone by where I haven’t thought about that moment and whenever the kids and I reunite it always comes up.