<human>: I made a new friend through my ex, let's call him Ray, who is super fun and cool. We have all the same interests and even have the same favourite book. I'm new(ish) to town and don't have many close friends here, my best girlfriend moved back to her hometown for school, my ex moved away, so I hang out a lot with my just my sis who is also my roommate.

Let me preface this by saying I am bad with boundaries. I'm a really comfortable person in both platonic and non-platonic relationships. Sometimes it gets me into trouble. 

Since meeting this fellow I've been very drawn to him in a platonic friendsy way. I miss having a best friend around in town, someone to go to concerts with, shoot the shit, watch movies, cook food, and other boring day to day things. I used to do all this stuff with my best friend Dallas [23M] in university but he moved home as well. Ray actually reminds me of Dallas a lot.

The problem I'm having is that I'm worried I'm overstepping boundaries. I talk to Ray a lot. Like, we message all day. We make a lot of plans together and joke around a ton. I actually feel the urge to message him a bunch throughout the day. We've even talked about working together (him hiring me at his business for part time.) 

Mutual friends have approached me and asked me what's going on because we're all over each others Facebook walls. 

It makes me feel weird because my intention is not to be romantic, its to have that pleasant close friendship feeling again. Like I did with Dallas. Also, Ray has a girlfriend whom I like very much and don't want to piss off.

Am I being weird? Overstepping boundaries? Is this a realistic expectation for a friendship? Id love an outside opinion.

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<bot>: made new friend, I want to talk/hang out a LOT and don't know if this is weird/crosses normal friend boundaries or comes across as sinister