As my username says, I'm recently divorced and 62. I was separated for over a year before the divorce came through and ExH and I had had a completely platonic relationship for the last two/three years prior to that.
I've realised I don't want to be single for the rest of my life, even though I'm not that keen on the idea of living with someone again, but can't face the thought of online dating any more. Been there, done that.... But I'm a young 62 and still full of life.
A few months ago a married aquaintance who I know through mutual friends got in touch via social media asking how me and the DC were, and has been messaging me on and off in a friendly way since then, mostly texting about each other's work (I don't work with him by the way but he does live in the same town as me). I know him to be a lovely, kind family man, and he has kids, but I have no idea about the state of his marriage. I know him slightly better than I know his wife. He's a few years younger than me and I've always liked him but never saw him in that way while I was married.
Of course you know what's coming now 🙄. The texting has become a bit more frequent recently even though I'm very bright and breezy in mine, friendly and nothing more. His texts, however, are a bit more forward and he's made a couple of flirtatious comments. I would really like to ask him what's going on and what he thinks he's doing. I have no intention of this developing in to an affair but have to admit I'm flattered. A close friend has advised me to stop all communication now and not reply to any of his messages, but I'd like to get to the bottom of it and find out why he's interseted. If he was separating from his wife suely he would make that clear?
Or his he just chancing his arm, deep in a mid-life crisis and bored in his marriage? He's the last person I would ever imagine to go after another woman, but what do I know? Opinions please?