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My friend and I just started a fling of some kind. I guess it's a friends with benefits thing but we care about each other a lot. We're both going to different colleges in the fall so we don't want to be in a relationship because then we'd either have to breakup or do the ldr thing and we don't like either option.

He just recently told me he's liked me for years but never thought I'd be interested so he never said until now. I'm pissed because he wasted all that time. Oh well, we're finally connecting.

After we'd kissed a couple of times he confessed to the crush and said he cared for me greatly. Now, everytime we do anything sexual, he says I love you over and over to me. I say it back but I'm afraid I'm going to get hurt if we keep this up.

We're definitely not a couple. We want to keep things on the dl at school because we have the same friend circle and they love to be nosy. So we just act platonic there. I thought that would be weird and awkward but it's not at all. Then, in private, we sex each other up and he says I love you some more.

i keep asking him what we're doing or calling this. He says we're friends. I've told him I'm scared of getting too attached, especially now that I took his V card yesterday. It was amazing and now that I know how great it is, I want him even more.

I would love to be his gf but the timing sucks, so I guess we'll just stay friends. So why all the I love you's?
Is that just the sex talking? He usually says it while we're kissing. I know he cares for me and I am really into him, but I don't want to fall in love and be devastated in September. But what if he really does love me? It might be dumb to not see where this goes.