Taurus Female/Capricorn Male - Opinions Needed

I??ve been engrossed in the Capricorn board since stumbling upon it five days ago when searching for some insight about the Capricorn male I??ve been seeing. There is a tremendous amount of valuable information on this board, and I decided to throw my situation out to you guys and see what you think.
I'm a Taurus born May 20, 1972 and he's a Capricorn born December 29, 1970.
The back story could be lengthy, bare with me. Last year around Christmas I met the Cappie. He came on very strong, very flirtatious and very sexual. I pegged him for a player and while I would talk to him when he??d text or call, I gave him hell to be perfectly honest. Insulted him in a joking manner and so forth — I was not the sweet girl I typically am while trying to impress a man. I just didn't buy any of his crap and I let him know I didn't buy any of his crap. His contact then became very sporadic and I noticed his Facebook had women crawling all over it. That all just confirmed my suspicions of his player status. By this point, he pretty much admitted he was a player.
At the end of June things picked back up between us again and I was very callous towards him, but was really wanting sex, to be blunt. I agreed to a FWB because the man is very handsome. We met up, went out, had really good sex and went back to our sporadic communication. Fine with me, I didn't trust him as far as I could throw him. First of November we hooked up again after doing some fairly consistent chatting, but things changed. He brought his guitar, and we hung out for five hours. Cool, looks like we can be true friends, but I still didn't chase him. He asked me once, —Do you know how man women would kill to have me chasing them like I chase you— I answered, —103—
Then everything flipped. He started contacting me every day, many times a day. Turned out we had tons in common. Fast forward to the week before Christmas, he works offshore for 3 weeks at a time and is home for 3 weeks at a time. He and I live an hour apart, but he grew up only 30 minutes from where I live and grew up. I??ve been writing a novel and needed to visit New Orleans for research. So, I flew down to NOLA and we spent the week together before riding home with him. We had a great time; however, a week later he went to the movies with another woman. I wasn't happy. We spent quite a bit of time together during those 3 weeks home and still communicated every day.

Now, when I say communicate??_..I mean communicate. It is nothing for the two of us to exchange over 100 texts and/or emails a day. If he sends a text and I'm out of touch for more than an hour and he wasn't pre-warned he's in a panic. I realize that this is not typical Capricorn behavior.
He went back to work in January and I questioned him again about the woman he??d gone out with. He said that I knew he wasn't able to have a relationship with his schedule (3 weeks home/3 weeks work, plus when he's home he has full responsibility for his daughter), but he didn't want to lose what we have. This was all prompted by me because an ex of his contacted me warning me that he was a user and would never pay for anything. Took her for nearly $ 3,000 in gifts and borrowed money and another girl bought him a $ 3500 guitar plus more. I bought him a $ 7 book for Christmas. I then laid out to him that if we were going to continue then we would each pay our own way. Period. If he or I had sex with anyone else then protection would be used.

He comes home and ends up being home for 6 weeks. During this time he was over at my house 2-4 times a week. He has to drive an hour each way. Constant communication continues. Plus, he starts paying for everything??_every meal??_started looking for an electric guitar to buy for me, bought me several gifts and even he has said that he NEVER spends money on a woman. His ex supported this statement and now he's spending money on me. Of course, I cook when he's over some times, but when we got out he doesn't allow me to pay for anything. He's put gas in my vehicle even for driving to see him twice instead of him coming to me. He's come over twice to my work, which is an additional 30 minutes on his hour drive to take me out to lunch.
He left back to work last week and ended up having to stay onshore for a couple of days due to the weather. He??d go out, but come back to the room early and let me know that he was a good boy. Went up to NOLA one afternoon and left before the evening got started. I asked him why and he said he felt like it was the responsible thing to do. He left because he didn't want to end up picking up some woman. I??ve made it plan several times during his last stint home that I would be very, very hurt if he were to sleep with someone else and that I will not hesitate to walk away. I??ve also told him that when I walk??_..I'm gone. There is no coming back.
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We are not in a committed relationship and from reading these boards I know that I shouldn't think that we are until he says it. I realize that he probably talks to other women and such, but I hope he isn't sleeping with them. We are in constant contact. So much so that I wouldn't possibly have time to even entertain the thoughts of talking to another man, so I'm not sure how he could be seeing another woman. He says he hasn't had sex with anyone else since our New Orleans trip. I told him that if he lies to me then I will never forgive him. Honesty is all I ask. He told me the other day that I'm probably his best friend. He's always telling me he misses me, and I??ll say it back one time to every 3 or 4 of his.
Could someone give me an opinion on his behavior? Is it all typical Capricorn man behavior? Is he falling for me? Or is he playing me for a fool? And yes, I'm crazy about him. We have a fantastic connection and are so similar it's scary. He even remarked last night, —We are so alike in so many ways.??

I apologize for the length. Thanks for taking the time to read.

hmm i dk about everything but i do know whenever a woman calls me out on whatver i'm doing and says she wont deal with certain behaviors i value them much more. at that point i wanna talk to them and wanna do less to disappoint them. its possible he'll want to be official in the future but just isnt ready yet to pull the trigger

Kiss of death "He told me the other day that I'm probably his best friend"

Your just a friend just like all the other girls he's friends with...Your setting yourself up to fail. Your assuming because you took yourself OFF the market that he's doing the same thing with no confirmation from him. Your also aware per his own words "He said that I knew he wasn't able to have a relationship with his schedule (3 weeks home/3 weeks work, plus when he's home he has full responsibility for his daughter), but he didn't want to lose what we have"

I hope your using protection when your sexual with him...

The dude basically is telling you your not a girlfriend, he doesn't have time to entertain that with you and he's also confirmed your his "FRIEND" best friend "PROBABLY" smh.

Pull out now! While your heart is still intact....Your headed for self destruction lol

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my query. I appreciate it.

You both may be absolutely correct in everything you've said. You may be partially correct, and you may be completely incorrect. Since one responder seemed to latch onto the "friend" thing that's what I'll address. When this was said it wasn't me asking, "How do you feel about me." He was lamenting the lose of his best friend, how they've grown apart and such. That's when he said, "You're probably my best friend now." Whether that makes any difference in your assumption I have no idea. I told him the very same thing about a month ago.

Like I said, thank you for taking the time to respond.