Women Talk About Whether Friends With Benefits Can Work

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[OliviaCaraa]

it CAN work, but feelings are kind of hard to avoid getting!

[NoPancakeMix]

another buzzfeed video that is irrelevant to me but ill watch it anyway

[potato]

What if you don't have any friends? What do you do then? I... I'm asking for a f-friend. ( ._.)

[EmeliaSings]

I could probably do enemy with benefits. Someone whom I hate, but have passionate sex with. Though I would disgust myself, I would be satisfied and it would drive me crazy but like in a so passionate way.

[oTCYSo]

I think the key is to find a person who you think is clearly not relationship material (Not saying he/she is a bad person but just someone that you won't consider as a suitable partner for you) but yet physically attractive. With these dealbreaker traits in mind it's less likely for you to develop feelings for your FWB and hope for something more.

[MetalPhoenix]

I've never had a problem with it. She's extremely busy and stressed and she just needs me to get her off. She doesn't have time for a relationship. We still cuddle afterwards. So I guess if you're too busy for a relationship and you just need sex, it works since you're too busy to catch feelings.

[rdicalgeorgia]

I think that the two friends just need to be honest with eachother and understand what they both want from their relationship, and if it is mutual and they respect eachother, the fwb relationship could work just fine💁

[khl]

damn... that girl with lashes and brows in fleek!

[elizabethchung]

It does work, but only if you weren't friends with that person previously, and have something about them you can't stand. For example, met this guy once who was hot as hell, but the moment he opened his mouth to talk, I just wanted to strangle him into silence. He was an in the air, noncommittal type of guy. Worked out fine!

[Hrdtylr]

I have a friend with benefits and its working really well we make jokes all the time about it like we hook up but also he gives me dating advice and encourages me to go on dates.. Im really happy hes in my life tbh

[Alex]

Open if you love your mom





Close if you love your mom

[ImYourShawtyBiebs]

It works when you hook up with someone that it is your friend but not the one you always hang out with, it defininately doesnt work when is a close friend, been there

[MiguelCostaY]

How does buzzfeed get so many i deas I have problems thinking of 1 video per week :/

[DavidParody]

Friends with benefits NEVER work because one person always catches feelings

[itaku]

The key is to have at least 2 friends with benefits at the same time.

[ishamaini]

friends with benefits works, you just need the right friend who has as many attachment issues as you :P and is emotionally unavailable. if you can't separate romance and sex then don't do it

[sarahjohnson]

I'm in a fwb right now and I already have feelings... DO NOT PUT YOURSELF IN THIS SITUATION I'm telling you rn its will be the worst or best (usually the worst) decision of your life. And one of you will get hurt like it or not. If you want to know I'm the hurt one so -10/10 I don't recommend

[davidbuschhorn]

Strictly speaking, it *never* works. If it did, there'd be people who've been in that relationship for 40 years...

[roofoochoo]

I think its hard to find but it does exists. A relationship is like being best friends with someone, except in the only difference is in the relationship you have sex, kiss, cuddle, not something you do with a friend. If two people can mutually agree on that and just have sex and thats it, It can work.

[Akitoyrc]

I had a friend with benefits. we end up dating and it turned into a three year relationship. Then it ended and we are still really good friends and we are still friends with benefits.