A quick peck on the lips from a male friend, what does it mean?

[waitingfornaru]

I have been chatting to a man virtually every night on facebook for a couple of years. He's a family friend, we occasionally cross paths. Our conversations on there are mildly flirty every so often but neither of us like to progress into anything uncouth online.

Every night otherwise, near enough, talk about anything and everything. We don't use the Chat function or send private messages to eachother (Ok, about 2 each in two years), my reason mainly because he's already told me things like everytime he logs on, particular women always instantly send him messages, so I don't want to be like that. I also agree with him that there's nothing we can't say in 'public' on facebook, so no need for private messaging.



At a family wedding, we had our first real opportunity to sit and talk to eachother for several hours, having previously only been in the company of other family members or similar, here we were pretty much together most of the night, having both drunk, but him only a couple of pints, I gave him the usual hug goodbye and a kiss on the cheek, but he gave me a quick peck on the lips. It wasn't a misjudged aim.

What does that peck mean?




Everyone says that he likes me, but if this is alluded to in facebook conversations we both deliberately ignore it and try to change the subject!

We are both single by the way and in early 40s, both out of very long-term relationships exactly two years ago, both of us.

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

I think it was good that you had the night out. No you know where you stand with him. You cannot build you life around the the promise that he may one day sort himself out so get out there and do stuff for yourself.

Rather than spend your evenings chatting him online is there something else you could do with your evenings. Join an evening class, find a theatre group, start morris dancing

[CalamityKate]

'What a beautiful, gorgeous, wonderful man, but he is not mine and never will be and that's that.'

Hmm. No. You're idealising him and imagining yourself a heroine of a doomed romance.

He sounds like a twat, tbh.



Yep, exactly that. He loves the fact you put him on a pedestal and imagine him as this perfect specimen. THAT'S why he's still around.

He's either not over his ex, or he's a player. Or a bit of both.

If he fancied you that much, he'd get over himself and snap you up before someone else does.

Totally not worth the effort, by the sounds of it.