I have been doing this for a while now but I have found myself making friends with a client.

I have heard the "Pretty Woman" tale of girls marrying clients, I don't think that it is like that.

Usually, I don't let them cross the barrier but I think that we get on like a house on fire.

Am I being foolish?

No, I've made one particular excellent friend from this job myself.

I'm always suspicious when clients try to get too friendly! I had one who bragged that he'd gone to the cinema and had coffee multiple times with an escort just as friends ( I declined his similar offers). Then he started being awkward, cancelling last minute, wanted leeway as we were "friends". Blocked!
I sound cynical I know, but good luck 

You're dead right and that's why I avoid it at all costs.

The way that contact has been established from the outset, for me, leaves the dynamics a bit skewed.

This is the one and only time though that I have let someone through the net.

He is so normal, sensitive, enjoys the "alternative" lifestyle and has lovely Irish humour.

I dunno, maybe I will have to post here if I come to regret this decision and it becomes a learning experience!!

Good luck. I'd say it definitely has to be an either client or friend situation. Not both.

Yup, this is the difficulty.

This ain't my first rodeo but I would like to enjoy the company of this man.

Really, as you ladies have all sagely suggested, I need to figure out exactly what the boundaries are, what I want the relationship to be and how to implement that. Hmmmmm, lots of thinking for my little brain to do!!

Whenever I have become friends with client it's been with clients who are boundaried, and able to maintain those boundaries. It always has to be appropriate too, without pressure. A couple of bookings per year regular becomes offended, doesn't understand when I don't let him connect on personal social media, he doesn't understand why I don't want him peering into my private life, who I'm married to etc. I also don't trust him to not make innocent slips.

I did meet my husband through my sex work but had had relationships with non-punters alongside my sex work before him.

TBF I’m new to all this very new

have a few regulars, 1 i see very regularly not friendly friendly but good chat etc

However I am married and very clear would never be crossover into my RL

If he’s in the swinging scene his lines on “normal” will be blurred in a good way

I’m a swinger, a HW to be exact, I view my “work” as an extension of it - hubby kinda treats it like regular meets with a bonus lol i’m not desperate for the money but it’s a nice extra and boosting my nest egg aka holiday fund

it’s lonely being an adult hard to make new friend’s & connections, even more so with SW as it’s such a morally grey area for many people, so having a kinda friend who knows & supports isn’t a bad thing

I did also make a very good friend of a client I didn't see him anymore for escort service after that as he got a girlfriend he didn't have an agenda that's why we're still friends years later
Unfortunately some have a agenda which includes wanting freebies and cross over your boundaries to make you feel. Confused deliberately  .

I think that you might have a really good point here... I don't need to be feeling confused, I need to crack on with my routine and with work.

The loneliness gets to me sometimes though.