Have you ever had a "friend with benefits"?

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My boyfriend and I decided to break up and be fwb for a while until we find someone new. Have you ever been in a similar situation?

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Friends with benefits are awesome as long as you're truly friends. I've had a couple and loved it. Great guys, love hanging out with them, and we hooked up regularly because we were both single and felt comfortable around each other. I'm still very close with them even though we've stopped hooking up. It's great having a connection with someone on a deeper level without having to worry about the commitment of a relationship. It gets complicated if you start to have other feelings, but hasn't happened to me yet.

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Works as long as u stay in control of ur feelings..

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That sounds like an awful idea.

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I am guilty of this too. 
After being recently divorced (married 13 years) I decided to start dating again. One of the guys I started talking to was 25, I just flirted with him bec it was nice. I am 39. 
Well we decided to hook up one night and just mess around. Sex didn't happen that night, but other stuff did. We continued to talk to each other  for several days and weeks. Flirting yes, but also as friends we could talk about anything. Then one night we were texting and I said how about we meet up again. That's when we had sex in a pick up truck in the country lol. Never thought I would be someone to have sex with someone and not have feelings for them, but just felt comfortable with him and didn't develope any feelings other than friendship. Plus the whole age thing, I wasn't going to do that. 
Even today we can still just talk about life or even joke around and we are both cool with each other.
I am in a relationship now, but those freshly newly single days after my divorce were fun.

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My advise will be not to do it, even if you guys decided not to be together, been friends with benefits wont allow you to move on, it's like having only the cake without having to go through the problem of making it first, all the good part no responsibility, at the end of the day one of you will end up hurt, and even if you find somebody else it will never be good enough just because you have that sexual bond with your ex

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It's incredibly hard to successfully do. Emotions are hard to stop.

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My experience with a fwb didn't end well. He actually ended up catching feelings for me. He was an awesome person but I had just gotten out of a 3 year relationship so I wasn't looking for another relationship. I ultimately hurting his feeling really bad when I didn't reciprocate the same vibe. My point is one of y'all will not want to let go. If either you or him find someone else in the middle of your fwb relations someone is gonna get thrown to the side for someone else & that would cause all kinds of problems!

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One of you is going to be pissed off. Either he will find someone first and u will be hurt and mad or it will be the other way around.

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I had a fwb thing for a while w a friend of mine, roommate at the time. Also ex, but hell even then it was basically fwb lol. 
My guy is long distance & i hadnt been able to see him for months, & she was going through it w her then-gf; death throes of the relationship sort of thing. She was trying to come off some stuff (she did) & well. Lets just say that made her VERY insistant lol. So we had a thing for a while until she met her new gf, who is amazing :) lol i love her. Best gf shes probably ever had. 
Of course my guy knew about everything, the whole time. The two of them are real close, they kinda joke about how i am in bed to mess w me lol. Its cute. He calls her his little brother & she calls him her uncle (theres a story behind that one). I never wouldve talen up w her if he hadnt been 100% okay w it.

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Me and my ex will probably always be fwb once we are both single...nothing is wrong with that...that's the person you trust (in some occasions) and unless yall both have an agreement that it's just sex and not making up or none of you all are catching feelings then there's nothing wrong with it, better than going to different guys and having sex with them.

Have you ever had a "friend with benefits"?

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