
Originally Posted by
2Sox
I'll bet if anyone had a choice of having a FWB or a having a real friend and partner to share your deepest feelings with and have larger emotions with, you'd chose the former.
I think when a guy has a friend with benefits, there is a mutual agreement to keep oneself intact and not go past a certain point in feeling more. It's an external form of self-love. Have you ever had sex in front of a mirror? Who are you looking at most of the time? Be honest? (And this can happen in long term relationships too. It's not exclusive to FBs or FWBs.) Sometimes, we just can't help ourselves and our emotions take us further. We fall in love. if we don't have larger feeling for another, we're just loving ourselves through another person. Just my opinion.
BTW, if anyone is interested, I edited my previous post above for greater clarity.