5 Ways To Know You’re Just the Friend With Benefits
Does he think I’m his girlfriend? Is he my boyfriend? Or are we just friends with benefits?
How Do I Get Him To Go From FWB To BF? [Ask A Dude]
I’m 23 years old and have known this guy for about 4 years. I’m pretty sure he was into me for a while, but I only recently started to like him. Figures, now he doesn’t feel that way about me anymore. What I do know is that he’s sexually attracted to me. Besides that, we’re still good friends.

6 Dos & Don’ts of Having a Spring Fling
No longer stuck inside because of the cold, winter couples are calling it quits and moving on to the coupling up that happens just around this time every year: the spring fling. Maybe it’s the weather, or the soon-approaching end of the semester that’s causing it. Whatever it is, the time for a fling is now.
Can You Turn Your FWB Into a Serious Relationship?
Can pigs fly? Can you fit into the same jeans you wore in middle school? Can FWB situations turn into a serious relationship?
On “What Are We!?” [Dear DBN]
In life, love is the treasure and no one has the map. We’re all bumbling fools on a quest no one will admit they are on. This week, why the bumbling fool technique doesn’t work and why communication does.
Stats Prove Friends-With-Benefits is the New Dating
You can chalk this increase up to a number of facts. Personally, I think it may be due to the successes of the 2011 hit movies No Strings and Attached and the appropriately-titled Friends With Benefits. And the fact that Ashton Kutcher and Justin Timberlake starred in them.
A Valentine’s Day Card for “When You’re Kind of Together But It’s Not A Big Deal”
If I could boil down all my frustrations, my exasperated gchats with friends, my wine-fueled rants, my shower cry seshes into one Valentine’s Day card, this would be it. Since when did caring — and admitting to caring — about someone become such a taboo act?

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Help! I Sexted My Best Guy Friend [Ask Tuffy Luv]
There’s always been a mutual sense of harmless flirting to our friendship, however, as we are both single. About a week ago, we were texting each other and the typical flirting began. But then the tone changed and we were suddenly sexting!
On Backing Down and Backing Off Gracefully [Dear DBN]
Are you entangled? Irritated? Frustrated with unrequited love? This week, just back off and let it go because these knights in shining armor are just tools in costume.
No, Not Every Guy is A Sex-Crazed Maniac [Sexy Time]
The very fact that friend-zoning is a thing that people buy into doesn’t exactly poke holes in the theory that guys only care about women as long as there’s the promise of a sexual relationship. Friend-zoning makes it sound like a platonic relationship is some sort of loser’s consolation prize, instead of something worth cherishing.
Friends with Condoms [Sex in the News]
We’ve all heard about the negatives that come with having a friend-with-benefits deal. That one friend is likely harboring feelings for the other and that there’s no way to end a FWB relationship and remain friends.
FWB or WTF!? [Ask Tuffy Luv]
Sometimes it seems like we may be “talking” and others it seems like he just wants a friendship, and I’m honestly fine with either. I want to know where we’re at so that I don’t get unrealistic expectations, but I don’t want to bring it up and potentially screw up a good friendship.

Cuddling From the Friend-Zone [Ask Tuffy Luv]
One day I found out through one of his friends that he was seeing someone else…I was pretty heartbroken. I confronted him. He admitted up to it and said that he only saw me as a friend. And me, desperately trying to save face, said the same.