It's healthy to have many friends.

Yeah, as long as I use a rubber. I don't have a friend like that though.

its not a relationship, but i dont see anything unhealthy about it as long as both parties know exactly what the situation is.

Nope. It will leave someone confused and hurt.

if both of you know what that means and have no moral objections to it yes... far healthier than one night standing. it allows you to have monogamous sex (which is safer, healthier, and funner since condoms suck) but still search for "the one" without being unfaithful. I have a moral problem with it but those who do not should do it, might give them more patience when finding a significant other so they make better choices.

NEVER! I fell in love with him and now im in total agony. Im completely miserable and obsess over him because i want a committed "real" relationship with him. Someone ALWAYS gets hurt in friends w/ benefits.

its a temporary situation

Nope. It sure isn't healthy. I'm not knocking it, but it is not healthy.

I think its all on what both of you want as long as you both dont want something more then I think its okay cause at least its only with one person and not a bunch of different people

Friends with benefits is never healthy. Someone always gets too attached when they see the other getting into a serious relationship and then things turn sour.

It is for the right people. In my experience, however, very few people are mature enough to do this properly without someone being hurt at some point.

Depends on the people involved. Some people can do it without being attached. If someone is doing it as a way to get into someone, then they are not being honest about their motivations. The FwB I had before my BF - we both knew there was no real relationship there, not in the long term, and we both were still "on the market". In the end we both found S/Os at around the same time, so the ending of our FwB relationship was pretty sweet. I still bump into him occasionally and give him a big hug. :)

No, sometimes one of the lovers in the relationship FEEL different after the relationship has continued on for a while.....one being in romantic love(expressing their love, or their deep emotional desires to connect with another person) the other in erotic love(having sexual desire which created an intense feeling of affection) this is when people really end up getting hurt. I think in order for a relationship be successful and healthy the love between two people must be equal and in romantic love. If the type of love is mutual and given with an equal intense passion heartbreak is not very likely.

been in that situation and ya know what if it is what both peole want then it is ok.

I don't consider FWB a relationship at all. It's based on purely sexual desire and there is no real friendship involved. No, I don't think it's healthy. People get hurt and the other one is laughing. And sex is driven by emotion.

i dont know,you tell me

That depends on the people that are having a relationship like that , if they or one is married then NO it is not healthy

haha you mean a FUCK Buddy..gees lets be honest NO! its not healthy...one of these people will have a change of mind/heart and probably want more, maybe even fall in love, lets face it , its normaly the woman that falls hard. As we are more emotionally. Men seem to have it together in this field

yes it is healthy if you both understand thats all that it is and nothing more. and healthy if its safe sex lets face it not many people that have friends with benefits only have one.

No, because you are not allowing yourself the opportunity of finding a real relationship. A fuck buddy relationship can leave one feeling degraded and used. It's ok if you have no emotions, but most people do. I'd worry about the cold-hearted "friend" who doesn't.

probably not. one of you will want to take it farther eventually. anyway, the premise of the relationship is amoral and you shouldn't be casually hooking up with people that way. good luck to you, and i hope you learn that promiscuity will never lead you to anything worthwhile.

No, it is animal like, unhealthy and degrading.

Its one of those things thats hypothetically fine. After all lots of single people get drunk at the weekends & sleep around (bit of a generalisation i know). Surely it would be better to have someone you know and trust to sleep with rather than a stranger. Problem is in the real world one or other is usually hoping for more, then you can lose a friend.

healthy, as in good for you? No. But some make it work for them.

depend how it goes some people dont want to get tied out in chains..okay picture this when we talk about serious relationship or serious Lovers you get this LOVE = can make you crazy LOVE = can make you do something even you dont like it LOVE = can make you crazy LOVE = can make you stunned LOVE = always Obeys LOVE = is tied in chains LOVE = not so much freedom LOVE = you can only touched by you Only LOVER LOVE = you must dont cheat to you true LOVER LOVE = dont get f*cked by anyone or somebody this well consider a cheating from your LOVER LOVE = you can't make out to anyone or somebody this well consider a cheating LOVER LOVE = HURT - this is mostly happen like you get dumped,used for sex material,used for selfishness goals,used for practice and then you get dumped,you being played,you used for fun,even if you both married when he/she does finds better than you eventually he/she moved to another level,if he/she gets tired from long relation you end up like this, LOVE = your LOVER may suicide for you and LOVE = you Only belong to your LOVER --- fro mthe first place you both must agreed on something that outside from real strict relationship if that happen and you both or you are engaging a Friends with Benifits relationship but most Friends with Benifits you get this: Friends with Benifits = much freedom Friends with Benifits = people who dont like tied in chains Friends with Benifits = people who likes free s*x Friends with Benifits = people who likes making out each other and even your partner do it on others Friends with Benifits = people who likes touching each others and even you get touched by someone else Friends with Benifits = you don't need to get jealous or anything about true relationship rules Friends with Benifits = your free from PAIN or to get HURT cause no rules!! Friends with Benifits = no problem Friends with Benifits = you both acted as in relations like both LOVERS do and Close friend but you free to do whatever you do Friends with Benifits = no ones gonna Die for you Friends with Benifits = you don't get punished from getting molested cause you both agreed to that Friends with Benifits = getting s*x all the way you both wants -- did i messed something? anyway i hope this helps but it all depend on your self some people consider it as healthy some don't cause they prefer real relations or serious relations..

I've had one for a while. He's the one I lost my virginity to. We're friends and nothing more. But he is very good.

I wouldn't say it is unhealthy if you are both content with it staying that way. It may be confusing though. If one person develops feelings and the other doesn't. Or if one person finds a person to date and wants to break off the benefits and the other person doesn't want to.

It's not too bad. +5

only the people in it can decide if it's healthy or not. As long as the people are being honest with each other (as in being honest that there's MORE fwb's than just them two cuz there usually is) but more importantly, i think it's MOST important for the people in the relationship to be HONEST WITH THEMSELVES. As in, some people try to act like fwb is all cool, but deep down inside they want more out of that person. THATS when it sucks.