Are “Friends with Benefits” relationships a good idea?
You guys care about each other a lot so it looks like there’s a lot of room for complications and gray areas. you guys might feel a certain way now, but who knows how things may change if a friendship with benefits were to progress. I did friends with benefits with a friend for 5 months. Prior to our involvement, we were friends for a year. I definitely started developing attachments and was frustrated because he didn’t want to date me. He ended things due to incompatibility issues that were forgivable in our friendship but not when other elements got involved. We are back to normal only because we were friends for a year before, and he’s a nice, great, consistent friend. I’m a forgiving person. This combination makes for a great friendship. But the results are variable. One thing for sure – your relationship with the person will not be the same again once it’s over. And it’s a relationship based on comfort, convenience, perhaps fulfilling physical desires, and passing time or surpassi
