You can have ‘feelings’ of love and respect for your friend with benefit. There’s a wide array of feelings with varying intensities.
You people don’t have friendships where y’all have sex once or twice a year and still maintain a healthy friendly relationship and it shows.
Normalize casual sex with your friends
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