Reasons to NOT do Friends with Benefits

Reasons to NOT do Friends with Benefits

Now I'm going to start off by saying, this take will not apply to everyone. Everybody's life is different andeveryone has their own opinions on things, but from learning what I have in my life and from other people's lives, I thought I just had to quickly throw this out there since I have been seeing so many girls asking questions about their friend with benefits ignoring them or whatever. So here we go.

1. Emphasis on the "Friends" part

You can take a perfectly good friendship and completely destroy it trying to involve sex without a relationship. Chances are once one of the two people decides to move on with their life and get a real boyfriend or girlfriend it will be too awkward to continue to have them in your life after this. They could've been someone you were really close to, got along with really well, was always there for you, and now that friendship has been thrown away.

2. Attachment

I'm going to say that in 99.9% of friends with benefits relationships, SOMEONE will eventually get feelings for the other person whether it be in 3 months or 3 days or whenever. The other person will often not return those feelings so here comes the heartbreak. This is what I've been seeing on so many questions on this website, people having feelings for their friend with benefits and wondering why that person does not initiate texts with them, or why they stood up their "date." It's because you are a piece of meat to them, not someone they are going to go out of their way for.

3. Your Dignity

This one applies to women mostly. Why let some guy use you for free sex when you could be in a relationship where you're treated with respect and your feelings are responded to? Sure, you may love being around this guy and sleeping with him, but in the end you will get hurt when you are rejected and finally "dumped."

4. It's going to end eventually

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't try for a relationship unless it has long term potential. Don't do friends with benefits and wait around thinking that eventually it will blossom into a relationship and you'll get married and have children and live happily ever after. This is only a temporary fling and another notch on your belt so to speak.

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  • I've always been against friends with benefits. Nevermind the reasons.
    I dont know if I can separate sex from emotion but I dont want to find out either.

    • I've never known a friends with benefits relationship that has been successful, without one person leaving hurt. I've always gotten attached to men that I've had sex with, and most women unfortunately do.

  • Friendships are bound to end anyway. I should have some fun with them while I have them.

  • Thats all not true sex with friends is less dramatic than sex with a boyfriend/girlfriend bc you can fuck multiple people without drama

  • I agree with you that friends with benefits isn't a good thing to do

  • FWB/Casual sex is such a waste of time. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

  • I loved my friends with benefits relationship. She and I are still good friends. I think there were some complex layers to our relationship, but we both understood that.

  • So 99.9% on the time 50% of people get feelings? What?

    I don't think it's bad. I think the problems arise from not having a good friend.

    • 60% of the time it works every time.

    • @Riverock ^ they've done studies, you know...

  • I disagree with 3. If it doesn't hurt a man's dignity, it doesn't hurt a woman's dignity either. Real men don't do slut shaming.

  • seems a tad lonely in here lmao