“the fundamental flaw” was just screaming for a male response, so here it is:
‘friend’ writes about the 5 pieces of advice for maintaining a perfect
“friends with benefits” situation, brilliant. seeing as i’ve worked my way into, and out of, many of these situations here’s 5 (and a half) things you should never do.
#1 never assume you’ll be able to just easily slip back into being
friends. the friendship will suffer during this “with benefits” period
and likely only return after an extended time apart. if, or more
accurately, when, the FWB situation comes to an end the preferable
method of repairing the friendship is moving to a different area code
for at least one year. one of those new cell phone area codes doesn’t
count (see “stalker”).
#2 never forget that the “benefits” include all the craziness expected
from a girlfriend, even though, you’re “just friends”.
#3 never call it “friends with benefits”. if you’re talking about it
it’s already too late (see “dating”).
#3b never talk about a future hangout during your hangout, if you find
yourself doing this, you’re dating (see “afraid of commitment”).
#4 never have more than one FWB situation occurring concurrently, if
it’s unavoidable, make sure they didn’t say, live together in
university and remain in surprisingly close contact or work at the
same local coffee shop you frequent (see “friend”).
#5 never go into this situation without accepting that one of you
will, eventually, be told at midnight on a friday that “from now on,
it’s just chills…” because as much as you secretly liked her, she
moved on (see #1).
- t.g.
