In college, a girl and I started out with an official agreement that we were just going to fool around once a week or so. Worked out nicely for awhile. We both had other girlfriends/boyfriends.
Four years later we got married, and that was eight years ago.
I’m guessing it isn’t emotional involvement - since you’d have to be really cold to enjoy someone’s time and sex with them and not give a damn what happens to them. They get hit by a bus tomorrow and you say “oh, well, it was nice for me while it lasted?”
Nah, I think the difference (I’ve had two) is that neither of you are making any sort of commitment to sex tomorrow or next week and both of you have the understanding that if someone better comes along tomorrow, you may never fuck each other again - but you’d probably invite them to the wedding. And if that next thing ends, and it works for both of you, you could fuck like rabbits at some future date. You also both have the understanding that a long term relationship that involves sharing an address is highly unlikely.
I had a girlfriend in college. Our actual relationship proper only lasted for a few weeks. But for about a year and a half after that we were “friends with privileges,” which, IMHO, sounds much more elegant than “fuck buddy.”
You’re right, of course. I actually have great affection for my former fuckbuddies, who are, first and foremost, my friends. (HeyHomie, I’ve always preferred “friends with privileges” and/or “benefits” myself). I should have said “lack of *romantic * feelings.”
I don’t think it’s simply lack of commitment though, because that can just as easily result in a booty call arrangement, which is different. A “fuckbuddy” is a *friend * who you happen to have sex with. Someone who you’d still hang out with even if you weren’t having sex. So I think that really the difference between a fuckbuddy and an SO or someone you’re dating is that, like **Dangerosa ** said, you like each other, but there’s no question of being or becoming a couple, and you’re both good with that.
Hmmm… nope. To be honest, I’m not sure if I could handle it. I fall in love like the way I fuck, hard and fast. Between that and my Catholicity, I consider myself to be doing well that I can enjoy sex before marriage. I’m getting more open (more perverted?) as I get older though, so I expect someday I might try one.