I don't see why it wouldn't. Sex is a pretty big deal, for both guys and girls.
The other thing is that guys essentially have four categories for girls:
A. Purely platonic friends (likes your company but has no sexual interest)
B. Girls he would like to sleep with
C. Girls he has slept with
D. Girls he is serious about (aka "marriage material")
You are now definitely in Category C. Before that you were likely in Category B, although there's a very slim chance you might have at some point been in Category A.
Most likely, you went from B to C.
The issue is that you're not in Category D, and likely never will be. If the guy has known you for a decade, and decides to sleep with you as "friends with benefits" then that tells you that he ruled out a serious relationship with you a long time ago.
At the same time, you're not really just friends any more, because to be "just friends" in his mind, you would have to belong to Category A. Then again it's doubtful he ever really considered you just a friend ever. So at the very least, it should change how you perceive your "friendship" with him.
"You've known each other for a decade and recently found out you've both had feelings for each other for a long time. Would sleeping together make it better or worse?"
It could go either way.
"Would it change anything?"
YES. Undeniable Truth Of Life Number I lost count: Sex changes things between people. It might make your relationship better, or it might make it worse, but it WILL make it *different* from that moment on.
Well, if you've known each for a long time, you probably know each other well at this point. On top of that, if you have feelings for each other AND have sex, that would definitely make your friendship confusing and ambiguous.
You also need to consider why you're having sex with each other but not making it a relationship between the two of you. If you've known each other well AND have feelings for each other, AND want to have sex with each other, what's the point of staying just friends? Would you be friends with benefits then? Would you become a couple?
I asked a similar question, except mine wasn’t a poll lol
It did for me. I was friends with a guy, then we called and talked on the phone together, and then we played games on the switch. After that it eventually got sexual and he assumed that when we had sex, that we were boyfriend and girlfriend. It was fine because I had feelings for him, but adding sex into the equation can change the whole dynamic.
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What's Your Opinion? Sign Up Now!Yes. Anytime you add something that is not platonic into a friendship, it will change it. Romance, love, and/or sex will always change a platonic friendship (it's not platonic anymore once you do these things). If you like the person and want to make it work then you can be together. But if it doesn't work, then you guys may or may not be friends anymore depending on how you both feel afterwards. Just be careful.
Well if you both liked each other I would imagine it would change things, almost certainly for the better. IF however the feelings are not mutual it would change them for the worse.
i feel like it depends on the type of friendship and also i think after that happens you both should talk and decide if you both want a friendship to still happen or if you both want to date or if you both still want a friendship but still want that to happen so it just depends on how close you are as friends and if you both allow that to happen
Yeah..
A decade and mutual feelings are great.
Changes to a love based on friendship. It would be a very strong relationship like in the photo.
100% changes a friendship
Go ahead and ruin a decade long friendship, Satan is waiting for you both in hell.
it can yes, but only if you let it..
Anytime there is kissing and you put a D in a V, at least one of you is going to catch feelings. So, yes, it will most certainly change things.
Haha. I mean there's already strong feelings
If the feelings are there then the sex should hopefully move your relationship from friendship to lovers.
Once you've seen eachother naked, and cross that boundry, you can't really go back
It would change things no doubt. But if ya both got feelings already then it shouldn't ruine anything sounds like you've always been more than just friends anyways.
That's called "friends with benefits" deary. It usually lasts until one of you finds someone you really like and then you can neither be friends or fuckbuddies.
Yes it does, and in my experience more from the female's side. Men want sex (physical intimacy) and women want commitment. If there is sex in a platonic friendship, the man has got what he wants, not necessarily from her, but from woman-kind, while the woman has not got more commitment. Traditionally sexual relationship have been an exchange between the female's sexual and reproductive capabilities and the man's commitment and provisioning of resources.
Who the fuck voted for "No"? LMAOOO
Sex always changes a relationship but not in the way you think. You see it depends on the people. Most of my friends that I've had sex with has ended on good terms. Never love yet. The sex with a friend is actually surprisingly comfortable and very pleaurable. The orgasm can be intense. But in the end there was always something about your friend or what you had between you both that made you only friends. For me its weird. Its like i can live with them and have great sex... but there a romantic chemistry that is missing. Or something about them that draws you away. Sometimes its personality or values or quirks.
Depends on you. Is it just sex? or do you expect something out of it? Communication is always important. Our actions always have consequences, so it really depends on you.
Nothing can happen out of it other than that. That's true.
You should just go through life assuming that sex complicates everything always. Even if you think you are one of the people who can have complication-free sex, you probably aren’t and the other person probably isn’t either. Friendships change when they become something more. It’s one of the most beautiful, frustrating, anxiety inducing things ever.
The “feelings” for one another are what changes the friendship.
Yup
You can't look at them the same way
Ofc it’ll change it
When you both have feeling for eachother and want to be in relation (assumed) than what's problem in getting intimate with that person?
It's just in mind that if we get physical all things will be runied. Maybe you two get more closer to each other.
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