Friendship

Update: he had a gf the entire time. 🙄

I have a friend, I've known him since we were about 10-12, we were very close as kids, and stayed in touch all the way thru highschool, and after high school we have gone on a couple of dates when he's home (military) anyway, from 2019-2021 he was talking to me on a different-ish level than just friends, letting me pick out what truck to buy and color etc, (and he did) he would facetime me and show me around to his friends and they'd all say hey to me, showed me where I was his lock screen pic and all, even said one day "we'd make a pretty baby someday" but... HE NEVER FLAT OUT SAID HE WANTED ANYTHING SERIOUS WITH ME. I didn't want to ask and look dumb or anything (I should have asked, I know.) I have never even kissed him before. Anyway he told me he was being deployed soon and that he probably wouldn't have service to talk. I haven't heard from him since the end of September. Do you guys have any opinions on if this is/was going somewhere? I'm fine if we stay friends forever, but I can't help but wonder if he WAS going to take things to a relationship level. I do think about him more often than I used to lately. Please no rude comments.