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Can you be friends with benefits without complicating your friendship?
Aoife
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Hey everyone,
Can you ever be friends with benefits without complicating your friendship?
Look forward to hearing your thoughts!
- Aife
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It'll always get complicated be it feelings being caught or one loving someone and wanting to end their attachment, someone will always get hurt and it can ruin a friendship x
But think even then it can still be pretty complicated & depends on the people and how they go about it in terms commication & stuff and making things clear
and because after having sex, one may feel more emotions & then cant go back to how friendship was for when dont wanna be friends with benefits
Do you think it's okay to expect emotional intimacy from a relationship that you define as casual?
No. Cant really mix sex and emotions together. If the emotions are more than feeling of friends otherwise its more than casual. & probably indenial if remain casual & not healthy.
But is way too hard to keep emtional and physical separate.
Ive been in a friends with benefits relationship, i think it was a way to cope with tramua and to feel in control of my body again(as selfish as sounds & made me feel worse with shame) But it just didnt work because started getting jelous and i didnt know of that meant emotions so ended that sort of relationship which ended the friendship which is sad cause was good friends. But basically i mean sex is a vulnerable thing & build some level of trust and emotions imo,