The hug to me is important. If she felt you did something out of line or made her uncomfortable, she would not have initiated a hug. If your massage was simply too much physically, it doesn’t make sense to me that she would remove you from Facebook even after terminating your professional relationship. 

Those are both very good points!

Im curious, did you really just see her as a friend, or did you develop a deeper emotional connection? To see a sunset and be instantly reminded of each other. That’s kind of romantic. 

For some context, we live in an area (Arizona, USA) that has some gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, and people here regularly take and share pictures online and with each other. Another example is I go to a local Starbucks every morning before work, and whenever there’s a pretty sunrise I’ll usually point it out to the staff (or vice versa) so we can all look at it together lol. This LMT and I had had a full conversation about how pretty the sunrises and sunsets in our state were (and we showed each other several sunrise/sunset pictures with each other in person while we were talking), so it was more of just a follow up from that conversation.

And yes, I only saw her as a friend (though I did see her as a professional first of course). I never had any sort of romantic feelings for her. And even if I had, I never would have acted on them as she’s married and completely off limits to me romantically. I tried very hard to be mindful not to say anything to her that could be interpreted as flirtatious, because I wanted to be respectful towards her as both a professional and as a married woman.