Question Posted Tuesday September 19 2006, 7:17 pm
okay i always get confused what is friends with benefits? everyone is always like i rather just be friends with benefits with him. im like oh but i have no idea what she's talking about. please help
MelLeDisko answered Wednesday September 20 2006, 4:57 pm: Friends with benefits is whenever you don't want to date a person, you just want to remain friends, but you still hook up with eachother. They're basically a "hook up buddy". See? Friends meaning, obviously friends, and benefits being the kissing, hooking up, whatever it is that they do. If you're considering [ or ever considering ] being friends with benefits with somebody, I would highly suggest not to. If one of you two gets a boyfriend/girlfriend or something, it'd probably wind up extremely awkward and things can go wrong and one might wind up liking the other while the other doesn't. It's just all complicated and confusing. [ I wouldn't know from experience, but some of my friends do ]. I hope I helped. [ MelLeDisko's advice column | Ask MelLeDisko A Question ]
sizzlinmandolin answered Wednesday September 20 2006, 1:45 am: It's being able to have the benefits of intimate contact with a person and not have to support them emotionally. In a friends with benefits relationship you can kiss, touch each other, and stuff like that, but you don't talk or hang out any more than regular friends. You don't go on dates or buy each other things. It's actually a very unhealthy kind of relationship. Usually one of the partners wants more, but the other won't give it to them. The intimacy causes them to become even more attached and believe that someday a real relationship will happen when it never will. Friends with benefits is very bad. If your friends are serious about that and are not being sarcastic or joking, they are either very cruel or very naive, confused people. If they ever mean to do that, try to talk them out of it. I hope I made sense. Good luck. :) [ sizzlinmandolin's advice column | Ask sizzlinmandolin A Question ]
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