Friends with benefits situation?

Can someone explain friends with benefits to me?

When you meet, how does it go in comparison to what you do with a boyfriend/girlfriend?

How much do you text? Is it everyday?

How often do you meet? Regularly or just occasionally?

Is it just sex and go or you actually spend some time together?

Are you there for each other when one is in a bad mood?

When you chat, what do you chat about? Is it just about sex or also other stuff?

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Friends with benefits situation?
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  • All of that really depends on what the two of you negotiate. Some people literally just meet up, bang, and leave (this type of arrangement is better called a fuck buddy, or if it's intermittent, a booty call). Other people hang out, eat together, sometimes even go places together - literally friends with benefits. How much they call or text or hang out will vary on the people involved and what they've got going on in their lives.

    Most women seem to struggle with being friends with benefits - though there are definitely exceptions - maybe 15% of women. That's one reason why some women prefer just being fuck buddies - no hanging out at all, just sex. It makes it easier for them not to develop feelings. But being "friends" and hanging out makes it a lot harder for a girl to avoid developing romantic feelings and the expectations that come with them, and since most guys DON'T have that problem, the usual result is that she wants a relationship, he doesn't, and things get ugly.

    Perhaps the exception is if there is some outside reason where you know you don't have a long-term future. For example, I dated a Mormon girl who was in her rebellious phase - she wanted to experience all of the wild and crazy things she dreamed about - but she knew that she was going to eventually move back in with her family, start going to church, find a Mormon guy to marry, and have a family. And in another case, I dated a girl who lived in Australia, but after her parents' divorce, her mom married an American, and she was on a 6-month tourist visa. We knew she'd be going home in a few months, and wouldn't be back for several years at least, so there was no long-term future - just short-term fun. In cases like that, it's easier to mentally block out any possibility of a romantic ending.

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  • I have ever had a friends with benefits but have spoken with many who have. There are two different scenarios with friends with benefits.

    In the first scenario, at least one of you - and maybe both - actually do want a relationship but you are afraid to verbalize. Maybe you have a fear of rejection, maybe you think that if your intended partner gets to know you, they will then consider you to be a more desirable partner. Maybe you are afraid that if you say you want a relationship AND sex right away, they will think you are a slut, and it is somehow more acceptable to simply ask for friends with benefits. If this is your situation, you may start just meeting up for sex but it will gradually morph into something that looks more like dating: going out to dinner, spending nights together, etc.

    If both of you truly want just a sexual relationship, you may engage in just enough preliminary activities to get comfortable with the idea, perhaps have one or two drinks beforehand the first time to allay any anxieties, and then you'll have sex. And afterwards, you'll say it felt great and you want to do it again soon, and then you'll go your separate ways.

    • In the 2nd scenario when do you go separate ways? After how long usually

    • I think most true friends with benefits's have sex, perhaps cuddle for a few minutes, then go their separate ways. They don't usually spend the night together. They avoid doing those things that might lead to emotional closeness so that the relationship remains strictly about casual sex.

    • Oh ya, less time u spend more likely u are to catch feelings.. im trynna figure out if its my thing

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  • You can't be friends with benefits unless you were actually FRIENDS to begin with, and that's why it's mostly a misnomer. You don't meet someone and suddenly decide "hey, let's be friends with benefits's". No, that's called "fuck buddies", and you just use each other for sex when it's mutually convenient.

    Answering your questions above really depends on what kind of friendship you had BEFORE you decide to have sex. If you didn't have any of those things, you won't have them after sex. It's a delicate situation, and someone usually develops more emotional attachment than the other.

    • Soo i met this guys recently, I thought friends with benefits and f buddies was same thing. I talk to them daily for a week now and it’s not pervy just like friends like. They are from another country but planning to see me again sometime. So I don't know what it is lol

    • If you "just met someone", they're not your friend yet. You don't know anything about them. If you decide to meet and fuck, you're just fuck buddies. They are NOT the same thing.

  • I had sex with my neighbor regularly when I lived in Laurel Canyon.

    I had just moved in and went over to her place to try to borrow a hammer (I couldn't find mine), and she invited me in, and while she was looking for the hammer in her garage I was standing behind her, and she turned around and we just looked at each other, and she got on her knees, unzipped me, and started sucking me off without a word (I got the hammer much later). It was a really great blowjob and I came like crazy.

    After that, she would come over in the middle of the night, or in the early morning, and we would spend hours fucking. We never spoke about our "relationship" or "feelings" at all, but there was a lot of very sweet non-verbal communication. This went on for about five years almost daily.

    • So u just met for sex, never anything else?

    • Nothing else except we went hiking and bicycle riding a few times.

  • I had once a friends with benefits situation.
    We texted maybe three times a week. We talked a Lot and had Sex of course. It totally depends on the two who have a friends with benefits

    • U talked a lot when? During meeting? Did neither of u catch feelings

  • its just friends u have sex with