Friends with Benefits: Not too benefitial
Thu 04 Oct 2007 – 11.00
According to a recent article from The Bachelor Guy, most of us have at some point had a Friend With Benefits. But from research out of Michigan State University, those friendships usually end up being less than benefitial, often ending in a non-friendship. Occasionally, the arrangement can evolve into a relation, but that only happens 10% of the time.
it boils down to 10% evolved into a traditional relationship, about 33% stopped the sex but continued as friends, 25% ended both the sex and the friendship, and 32% continued as FWB.
The question I think we should all be asking ourselves is not “what happened to our FWB?” but rather, “what were we seeking when the whole thing kicked off?”. My first impression is that we’d all like to have it evolve into a proper relationship, but I’ve learn that isn’t always the case and some people are truly not interested. I’ve always found it to be a truly bizarre phenomenon.
Check out the article and the original article from the NY Times (or the abstract to the research paper)
posted by Scott in relationships.