Just realized why everyone thought we were dating

This is going to sound weird and dumb but I wanted to share this or yell it into the void somehow. I’ve been dating my boyfriend for almost a year and he’s excellent!! We were close friends for several years before we started dating and our friends had it figured out long before we did because we were always pretty flirty/affectionate/snuggly with each other. We were crushing on each other for months with no idea it was mutual. Anyway, I found out kinda recently that a lot of people thought we were dating months before we had our sh*t figured out and I thought “hm a little funny I guess, but maybe we had that vibe idk.” You’re going to think I’m so stupid or literally playing dumb when I say this next part, but bear with me. I’m just naive or oblivious or something and genuinely didn’t realize this- tonight I realized that the common perception that we were together might be largely because it was common to see us around with my lipstick smeared on him and sometimes our hair in disarray, in addition to us then blatantly being cuddly and all over each other. I know how that sounds, but I’m just a fan of bold lipsticks. I tend to wear lipstick often, and we spend a lot of time together since we’re both actors and are often in the same productions. It wasn’t uncommon for us to give each other little kisses- cheek, neck, forehead- as a hello, I’m proud of you, gosh-you’re-cute, wow that dance segment went great go us, literally anything. And we’d often play with each other’s hair or I’d have a habit (still do) of running my fingers through his hair and it would get messy. So it was a relatively common sight for us to walk out from backstage or from the dressing room, him with lipstick marks on him, me with smudged lipstick... and we wouldn’t think twice about it, like it even became a running joke between us, and if someone would mention it or we’d notice, he’d laugh about how I always got lipstick all over him and I’d just smirk and wipe it off (often with me in his lap or is draped all over each other somehow) But I’m legitimately realizing how that looks now and I’m blushing bc I never thought about it out of context eek