• AcidBurn@retrofed.com
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      3 days ago

      Because sometimes people need shelter, food, or protection

      It can still be a transaction without money changing hands

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        3 days ago

        I’m not sure I’ve ever met someone “friendzoned” using a partner for that. Maybe for emotional support but what you described there is more how toxic relationships go down.

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          3 days ago

          I have extensive experience with those, so that’s probably the lens I viewed the comment through.

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        You’ve made quite an insane assumption seeing this post and deciding that it had to be transactional.

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              I was always under the impression that a sugar daddy paid for lots, not just freeing up enough space for a second toothbrush in the bathroom

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                While that is probably true, friends with benefits is completely non-transactional.

                It’s just two friends who fuck when they feel like it. For example, an ex and I decided that we didn’t work as a couple, but the sex was great so we just kept doing that until one of us found a significant other.

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                  1 day ago

                  Yes, but the thread is talking about being friendzoned by men (usually taken to be a bad thing) and yet the man still wanting sex

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                    No, it says “the guy will still sleep with you.” This is saying that guys will often be open to having sex with the woman who was friend-zoned if she initiates.

                    What it’s saying is that when a girl friend-zones a guy, he doesn’t get a relationship or sex. But when a guy friend-zones a girl, there’s a chance the only thing she doesn’t get is the relationship.