What are friends with benefits? Rules for being a friend with Benefits

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Friends are the most important part of life. Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. Generally, friends are those people that can be trusted and can help us to find solutions in our tough times. Usually friends share similar interests. Friendship is the best thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you have not learned then meaning of friendship, you really have not learned anything.  Every person should find a group of people who challenge and inspires them, and helps them to have their life at most effective level.

The strength of the bond of friendship between two people can vary. If the bond is very strong, they are called best friends. This can be achieved by possessing the elements of friendship, by being kind, generous loyal, honest, and by having fun. With these qualities anybody can truly enjoy the bliss of friendship.   

Generally, Friends with benefits can be referred to that relationship where people involved in a relationship and clearly enjoy spending time with each other without any condition or boundaries, and hooking up, but their relationship is not at all romantic and has no string attached. It’s a very modern concept of relationship among the people. Today’s generation is more practical in comparison with the older times.

So, they at some point referred to got into a relationship where there are no boundaries, no permissive behavior, and no connections of emotions between the couple. It was generally a concept of the western countries but due to effect of globalization it is creating massive effects in the Asian countries as well as in the other countries of the world also.  A recent study found that 60 percent of college students have been in a “friends with benefits” relationship .Some people believes that having a friends with benefits relationship is a great escape from life’s problems, they also believe the fact that it helps to overcome their past relationship and helps to carry the pain away from present life.

This type of relationship generally includes sexual relationships, friendship. Basically, there   is no need of love in this relationship. Because both the person is not committed to each other. Generally, in a romantic relationship both the person stays committed to each other in the sake of their love but in a ‘’friends with benefits’ ‘relationship they do not share that type of bond to stay committed to each other. 

Friends with benefits relationship is a one in which two people are physically intimate with one another, yet they are not committed with each other in any way. We can also say that people involved in a friend with benefits to avoid the committed type of relationship or to forget their past relationship. It’s very important to get into this relationship with full understanding and acceptance of what this means for both of them.

It’s also important to recognize that particular person is not going to be able to provide them with the emotional support and care that are typically demonstrated by a partner in a committed relationship, that may include off-limits activities such as crying on their shoulder, attending family events, to remember certain special dates, or do some special arrangement on important dates such as birthday, valentine’s day etc., or also going on a formal date.

The rules of being a friend with benefits are may be described as follows-

  1. Practical Behavior

The first rule can be said that they will behave more practically with each other because they are not bound with any emotions that they will share romantic bond with each other.

  1. Not committed to each other

The second rule is that they are not committed with each other. In a committed relationship both the person shares some common feelings for each other. But in this type of relationship they do not feel anything for each other.

  1. They might share friendship but not love

In a “Friend with benefits relationship’’ both the partners might share the bond of friendship but they will never ever share the bond of love.  It is something which does not fit into this type of relationship.

  1. They can’t force each other

Both the partners can’t force each other to do something as they don’t share the bond of love as well as they are not committed with each other.

  1. This relationship is different from other relationships

The Friend with benefits relationship is different from other relationships of the society. In some nations or can say some part of the world this relationship is not acceptable among the people.

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  1. No involvement of family members

Generally, in other relationships there can be seen the involvement of family members which means both partners introduce each other to their family members and also both the partners attend their family member’s functions but in this relationship the involvement of family members can’t be seen. They mostly hide this type of relationship from their family.

  1. Can’t depend on each other for something

Both the person can’t depend on each other on anything. Because their relationship does not allow them to establish that type bond with each other.

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  1. No trust issues

There are no trust issues in a Friend with Benefits relationship. Because there are no emotions among them. So, where there are no emotions so the existence of trust is worthless.

  1. Temporary relationship

This relationship can also be said as the temporary relationship because both the person might feel to avoid each other after just one meeting and both of them can’t complain about this fact.

  1. No complain issues

Both the partners can’t complain about each other because they are not bound with love.

Conclusion

So, at last we can say that opinion varies with the person. We should respect each other’s opinion about relationship. But this relationship is suitable for those who are ready to establish an emotionless relationship called “FRIEND WITH BENEFITS”.

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