The Fantasy of Friends With Benefits: A Delusional Escapism?
The recent letter to Slate's "How to Do It" column has sparked a conversation about the difficulties of navigating relationships in an era of casual sex and dating apps.
A straight woman in her early 30s, who had trouble with traditional dating, found some success hooking up with men on a friends with benefits (FWB) basis, but lamented that these relationships were doomed by the men's inability to comprehend the "friend" part.