Well your T seems human, as he stated. Take one intelligent female and male in the same room for (years?) with lots of emotional intimacy and of course the feelings can fly on both ends. It probably was pretty obvious he had those feelings even before he said it right? One thing I gather from your post, he seems so sure nothing will happen. Well of course it could happen! As he said, he's human. It's happened to many T's and clients who said it would never happen. So, yes, he is acknowledging his humanness but hopefully is getting supervision and being honest in supervision about this humanness. In the meantime enjoy it, I guess!