Do women bide their time until men become unattached?

Hey everyone! Okay, first off, I'm coming out of a long six-year relationship that basically exploded in my face when she cheated on me with a long-term lover, so I'm getting over that... But recently, something really weird has been happening. I've been "broken up" since upwards of 6 weeks now and life is slowly coming together again. I've had a lot of girl friends (i.e. friends who are girls) at university and school my whole life and suddenly many of them are clamouring for lunches and dinner dates and movie nights and clubbing nights and what-not. At first, I just thought it's because of my fairly traumatic break up and they're just being nice and helpful, but a friend of mine (male) seems convinced that they're all hitting on me and marking their territory for when I'm all healed up. At first I thought he was just spouting crap, but a lot of these girls insist on hanging out one-on-one and weirdly, they're a lot more tactile than ever before. I mean we used to hug every time we met (that's normal), but nowadays, I get hand squeezes and an almost inappropriate number of hugs per meet, and just generally they keep rubbing my shoulders and initiating brief touches that they never ever did before. I still told myself that my friend is off his rocker and ignored everything and have been meeting my friends as usual, but yesterday, I had to modify plans with a uni friend by bringing along a school friend who had come into town for the night. It was a last minute thing and dinner was with the three of us. Anyway, these women are usually very nice and wonderful people, but last night they were basically spitting fire at each other! I don't want to get a big head and think it's all about me, but it kind of felt like it... I dunno...Am I just imagining a perfect world where 6 different women are vying for my attention because they have a deeper romantic interest in me or am I allowing an idiotic male friend's fantasies to drive me to an equal proportion of crazy? Women of TSR: would you actually wait around for a guy and start hitting on him as soon as he gets out of his relationship? Is this kind of insane long-term plan...a thing?

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