Holy hell did I get a lot of private replies to my FwB question. The general consensus from everyone is that it can’t last over 6 months because one or both of you will develop feelings for the other and it’ll turn into a giant mess.
I asked because I’ve been in mine for over 2 years now. We briefly tried to date in between that, but realized we should just stick to what we’re good at(haha). Obviously we take small breaks in between, like when one of us meets someone we want to pursue an actual relationship with, but it’s been pretty steady for 2 years. We used to have some pretty strict rules on how we maintained this relationship, but those have pretty much gone out the window as they’re no longer super necessary to keep the lines from blurring.
My psychology teacher was telling us how these relationships can be both incredibly unhealthy and healthy for a person. Unhealthy because you can subconsciously use the relationship as a way of closing off to other ones, and healthy because it gives the people involved the outlet they may need in a safe environment.
May or may not be using the responses for a paper… So what do you think? Healthy? Unhealthy? Do you even care?