{"id":856,"date":"2009-12-12T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T00:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:16:04","slug":"the-definition-of-fwb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"The Definition of FWB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions I&#8217;m often asked (and forgot to fill in on my online dating profile) is what I&#8217;m looking for on my little adventure.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, everyone assumes I&#8217;m looking for sex and that is a large part of the equation but only about 25% of it.\u00a0 What I&#8217;m really looking for is called FWB&#8230; Friends With Benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Now that is a nicely vague definition of a lover isn&#8217;t it!\u00a0 But as I started to play in this new pool I began to get a better idea of what I was looking for.\u00a0 And first off I&#8217;ll explain why I&#8217;m looking for more than one.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not being greedy!\u00a0 Or gluttonous!\u00a0 I&#8217;m protecting them and myself from drama.\u00a0 I know me (and often women in general here) and I can get just as easily attached to any man as a woman can.\u00a0 Even holding them at a distance or using logic&#8230; it won&#8217;t really matter.\u00a0 You&#8217;re brain will spend its quiet moments thinking about him and wondering what he&#8217;s doing.\u00a0 When are you going to get to see him again.\u00a0 Do you see the pitfall in this?<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s the only ONE you&#8217;re looking forward to seeing he becomes a natural direction for the attachment process.\u00a0\u00a0 Your body will say&#8230; &#8220;hey, when are we going to have fun again?&#8221;\u00a0 and your brain will start to try to arrange that!\u00a0 And if its not often and he &#8220;rocked it&#8221; then a woman&#8217;s brain will start to whine that question.<\/p>\n<p>And before you know it&#8230; you are no longer the woman he found interesting.\u00a0 Instead you&#8217;re a pre-girlfriend wanna-be.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like me when I turn into a pre-girlfriend wanna-be!\u00a0\u00a0 I like me when I&#8217;m just me.. not me with ridiculous expectations about &#8220;where this is going&#8221;.\u00a0 I&#8217;d rather the comfortableness that it is &#8220;going&#8221; no where.\u00a0 We&#8217;re just two people enjoying each others company.\u00a0\u00a0 To make sure I obtain that I plan on having several FWB&#8217;s to confuse the attachment process with lots of choices!<\/p>\n<p>So people accuse me of having &#8220;attachment issues&#8221;.\u00a0 Maybe, but perhaps your definition of attachment is different than mine.\u00a0 This is what I&#8217;m looking for in a FWB.<\/p>\n<p>Desire.\u00a0\u00a0 The desire to genuinely enjoy his company even out of bed.\u00a0 The desire to cross the room and strip him naked as fast as I can.\u00a0 The feeling of mutual respect between us.. me to him and knowing its there from him to me.\u00a0 And top it all off with a little fondness and affection.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m looking for my FWB = a\u00a0 genuine male friend that lusts me and I lust back with equal force.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One down&#8230;. 6 or so to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions I&#8217;m often asked (and forgot to fill in on my online dating profile) is what I&#8217;m looking for on my little adventure.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, everyone assumes I&#8217;m looking for sex and that is a large part of &hellip; 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