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NSA or FWB never ever work!

posted 10 years ago by CharlesVariations
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Usually they end with one party having feelings for the other, or both parties having feelings and then it complicates things especially since they went into a FWB relationship because they didn't want to be in a relationship in the first place! But that's never the case. If you have sex with someone, it will always become intimate one way or another. Or at least one person will develop feelings while the other may not, and then the FWB connection is ended. Or they might just end up dating, or just call it quits before it happens.

There's several outcomes I'm sure, but my main point is that they always end up in weird or awkward situations. Sex is sex people, it's an intimate act. It messes with people's minds sometimes, and so does FWB or NSA. Somewhere down the road things are going to get weird for both parties.

It's happened to me three times (Fool me thrice, I'm a friggin idiot) and a few other people I know of as well as stories I've heard from others people about how someone they knew had the same thing happen. It just doesn't work people, or maybe I should say "It generally doesn't work," I just say that because maybe there is a FWB couple that have worked it out.
But I highly doubt it.

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.

[–] guy1234 9 years ago

Guys do it with prostitutes all the time. No fuss no muss.

[–] CharlesVariations 9 years ago

LOL oh come on, that's not the same situation at all.

Is that what you do?

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.

[–] IL_Maestro 9 years ago

That is true, because everybody watched the same movies at least for a while in their lives
so the cliches in Rom-Com would eventually rise in one party, usually the party that is thinking lowly of him/herself
so if one is like 7 and the other 5, the 5 would eventually fall for the 7 where the 7 would be only using the 5.

"It is never about what happened, it is only how you look at it!"

[–] CharlesVariations 9 years ago

Yeah, I can see that. The guy or girl that the one party "keeps around for a while to fall back on" or something along those lines...

I knew a girl with a "F-word Buddy" as she called him, and I told her my opinion on FWB relationships and she insisted ther was absolutely no risk of that, and she was so certain too and dismissive of my opinion. Then of course she started getting angry and "confused" that he didn't want to see her for a while, then she finally admitted that she "liked him but didn't realize."

It was difficult, but I resisted the temptation of telling her: "I told ya so."

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.