Well, I appreciate you all enlightening me, like I said, dating is different now seems like. And the reason I say that is, my ex H and I have had to spend some time together this past weekend, we've had a family emergency...and he saw M's text pop up on my ph that said "thank you my lover" in reply to something I had written...and my ex asked me about him...I told him he was just a friend...and my ex goes 'but he called you lover'. I told him that it was not a permanent relationship but didn't go any further than that as it's not his business anyway. So, it would seem I am not the only person who would read more into M's words of endearment. My ex was the kind of person who used the word 'love' very sparingly so he would have picked up on it quickly anyway. He never liked that I would say I love a friend, even when I was talking about a girlfriend who was important to me. I love people pretty freely and that is just me.

Anyway, I am taking it as you all have suggested. I haven't seen M in almost a month anyway, we do miss one another but life doesn't always allow people to just up and go away for the day or the weekend or whatever, whenever you feel like it. He lives about 2.5 hrs away from me so it's something that has to be planned out.