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AIBU to think Friends With Benefits, is a bit tacky?

956 replies

brasty · 22/11/2017 17:46

Maybe I am? But this seems to be much more common amongst young people. It all just makes me feel a bit "disgusted of Tunbridge Wells".

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RoseWhiteTips · 27/11/2017 12:46

Why the defensiveness, though? It’s all a bit baffling.

AllThatJaz · 27/11/2017 12:47

@Rosewhitetips*

I wonder if there are any of the amazingly handsome FWBs - male ones, obv! - who would like to offer their opinions on the women they have such an arrangement with...

I seriously doubt any of them will be coming on here. I bet they will be impossible to track down. PMSL! Grin And even if you did track them down if they do actually exist they won't tell the same tale about the FWB set-up as the women on here do, with their fantastical tales that have come straight from the pages of a cheesy chick-lit novel! LOL. Grin

Coconutspongexo · 27/11/2017 12:48

I’m 27 (I look about 22) I’ve had a married man aged 52 ask me for my number and offer to buy me drinks.

There’s two reasons that’s wrong.

So people who have FWB can’t defend themselves but married people can?

Coconutspongexo · 27/11/2017 12:49

Jaz

I doubt anyone can take you seriously
PMSL
LOL
Really?

No one has romanticised FWB on here, so it’s far from chic lit.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 27/11/2017 12:51

It's amazing that husbands actually use the 'my wife doesn't understand me' line ...

Darlingsof · 27/11/2017 12:52

AllThatJaz - I have had several FWB over the years, friends or friends of friends ( not eBay!) and it's all worked out fine, and been fun, and I'm still open to the idea 25 years after the first one... and I don't really care what they're telling their friends about me. Probably not much cos that's kind of the whole point, it's a casual-ish thing between us.
They've all be women though, don't know if that makes any difference...

AllThatJaz · 27/11/2017 12:55

@Dippingmytoesin

@allthatjaz I doubt anyone takes you seriously

I don't give a shit. Smile

Coconutspongexo · 27/11/2017 12:55

Btw I’m not exactly promiscuous - I’ve slept with two people my ex who I got with when I was 15 and my friend.

Such a whore!!

AllThatJaz · 27/11/2017 12:58

I stand by everything I say in that LONG post of mine, so much so that I will repost it, for your reading pleasure.......

I have been reading this thread with interest over the last few days, and as someone who has never had - or wanted a FWB, I have to wonder what these women who claim they have one, do when their male shagging partner moves on. Do they advertise online for another one (like on tinder or fuckbuddies.com,) or with a little card in the window of the newsagents? I mean, seriously, how do you find these FWB's?

I am actually amused to read the posts by the women with FWBs who describe the relationship as a fun loving arrangement, with a gorgeous handsome man who is their best friend/soulmate, who gets up and cooks breakfast for them, who they have long walks and long cosy chats in front of the fire with, and who 'fucks off home' when SHE wants them to go.

Yeah, cos THAT happens! wink

Even if anyone on here actually does have a FWB, (and I seriously doubt many people claiming it do have one,) I bet an entire month's salary that their FWB does not describe them to their friends and acquaintances like the women on here are describing them!

I bet he says 'Yeah, I have got this bird on the side, she's a bit desperate, and a bit clingy, but if I fancy a blow-job, I just text her, and she's right there. I get out as fast as I can afterwards though; I don't wanna give her ideas that I want anything more than a fuck!'

The whole thread has been hilarious, with one poster after another describing their 'FWB' as their BFF and soulmate, and churning out lines that could have come from a rom-com or a cheesy chick-lit novel!

I know a few people have been rude (like dannitruth, calling people names,) but she was probably just pissed off with being ganged up on, by the gang of posters on here claiming they have a FWB and mocking people who don't have one, or want one.

This was in addition to them saying anyone who doesn't think it's a great idea must be JEALOUS, laughing and taking the piss out of 'prudes' who have never had a 'FWB,' and LOL-ing at each other's 'hilarious' posts, and patting each other on the back at how 'witty' and 'hilarious' they all are.

And the vile insults aimed at married women, calling them domestic slaves, stuck in dull, sexless marriages are disgusting, and really speak volumes about the people saying them. They are jealous and bitter, through and through.

I mean, no wonder a few posters have retaliated. Many of the posters who supposedly have FWBs, are hugely defensive and very rude, and the massive rants by @Graphista were hilarious. I have never seen anyone so angry and defensive in my life!

I know a few people make FWB set-ups work, but the reality is nothing like some posters are describing it on here. And you can rest assured (in most cases,) that the man in the FWB set-up probably doesn't feel the same about you, as you do about him - ('Oh he's my BFF, we have lovely long chats and lovely long walks and a grrrreat time together blah blah blah.') And as was said much earlier in the thread, yes someone WILL get emotionally attached, and it WILL be more likely to be the woman.

See ya. Smile

Darlingsof · 27/11/2017 12:58

Someone sounds like they could do with some cheering up!

Coconutspongexo · 27/11/2017 12:59

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😴

Coconutspongexo · 27/11/2017 13:00

Strange that this is the first thread you’d choose to ever post on btw.

Very strange

AllThatJaz · 27/11/2017 13:00

@dippingmytoesin

I never said you were a WHORE. I never mentioned that.

It's very telling that you feel the need to insist you have only shagged 2 people though.

I re-iterate; some people on here are very defensive. Wink

AllThatJaz · 27/11/2017 13:01

Oh don't worry, I don't need cheering up, this thread has had me pissing myself laughing for an hour or so! Grin

Coconutspongexo · 27/11/2017 13:02

I wasn’t on about you, you crank you probably don’t even know what promiscuous means.

Graphista · 27/11/2017 13:05

allthatjaz Not 'rants' at all and I am far from angry generally because I have a full life which includes a fwb, but I think it's perfectly acceptable to be pissed off at being called a whore, slut, liar, bad mother, deluded etc - none of which are true.

Regarding where people find fwb, some make arrangements with people they're already friends with, some meet them as one would meet anyone - through hobbies, other friends etc, some through online sites that exist for just such arrangements. Just as people with partners/husbands meet them through hobbies, friends and OLD.

As for the guys being deceptive, I know of far more deception going on through supposedly "proper" relationships, numerous friends have met guys inc through online dating only to find out the guy is only after sex and loses interest as soon as they've got that or are married/in a ltr and they've unwittingly become an ow!

And as you've never had one, you can't possibly know how it feels to have one or how it works.

"The fact that you link the words desperate and clingy to women who want sex no strings attached says a lot about you." Precisely.

"I seriously, seriously doubt that...." Why? There's thread after thread on mn alone of men treating wives/partners the MOTHERS OF THEIR CHILDREN alike utter crap on their shoe! From expecting them to do all the housework, childcare and social organisation of the family to raping them!

Who's really kidding themselves?

The people in honest equal relationships who are happy with whatever arrangement they have, be that fwb, ons, or a genuinely good marriage/partnership who understand that is not what everyone wants or... The people who think that anyone not doing the same as them is weird/whore/slut/deluded etc?

surferjet · 27/11/2017 13:19

For me, the problem with a FWB is he’d probably have other ‘friends’ ( maybe the women do too but unlikely ) so you’d always have to be careful about sti’s. I think I’d rather just have a one night stand every now & again.
The FWB is no mans land, not a proper loving relationship, & not hot casual sex with someone you’ll never see again
( that gorgeous stranger )
FWB is a bit like shagging your neighbour or the milkman - it sounds really boring if I’m honest.

Redglitter · 27/11/2017 13:20

And keep kidding yourself that a FWB 'set-up' is better than an actual relationship, and your FWB thinks you are his 'soulmate and BFF' and that you go for lots of lovely walks and have lovely long chats and giggles and cuddles, and YOU kick him out when YOU are done

As someone who has a FWB I can honestly say I've never said or done any of that. That's not how we work

I've also never read such shite as that patronising sermon from Allthatjazz. What total arrogance to post it twice

I can't understand why people have such an issue with people having FWB and can't accept some of us ARE happy

JacquesHammer · 27/11/2017 13:22

Just to clarify to the newest wazzock poster to pile in.

He describes me as I describe him.

To be honest I don't really care if he does the whole "yada yada" I can get a blow job because I can do the same

He's hot, he fucks well, he's no hassle.

Very simple

HolyCreamola · 27/11/2017 13:22

I mean, no wonder a few posters have retaliated. Many of the posters who supposedly have FWBs, are hugely defensive and very rude, and the massive rants by @Graphista were hilarious. I have never seen anyone so angry and defensive in my life!

Says majorly ranty and defensive person

Redglitter · 27/11/2017 13:22

FWB is a bit like shagging your neighbour or the milkman - it sounds really boring if I’m honest

Believe me it's anything but boring. Safer than a ONS and it's someone who gets to know you. The sex I have now is streets ahead of the sex I had with my ex partner

JacquesHammer · 27/11/2017 13:24

As someone who has a FWB I can honestly say I've never said or done any of that

Well quite - I can't think of anything worse than long walks.

He is my closest friend. He's hot so we fuck.

He might have other women. That's his call. I am free to do the same.

We practice safe sex.

There's no risk.

HolyCreamola · 27/11/2017 13:25

I don't have a fwb set-up, don't particularly want one. Don't think it would suit me.

But bloody hell, there are some people on this thread who seem so threatened by the fact that other women do like no strings sex. Posts virtually pulsing with anger. So bizarre Confused

JacquesHammer · 27/11/2017 13:29

Are the two ranty sockpuppets posters interesting...

Redglitter · 27/11/2017 13:30

I'd wondered that. Or a PBP perhaps who disappeared the other night after similar rants

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