Your Call: Can I Downgrade a Booty Call to Friend (No Benefits)?
We get a lot of advice questions coming in at EMandLO.com, but sadly, we just can’t answer them all. Which is why, once a week, we turn to you to decide how best to advise a reader. Make your call on the letter below by leaving your advice in the comments section.
Dear Em & Lo,
I have been reading lots of stuff, but not really getting the answer I want, so here goes: Can a booty call turn into him and I just being friends? Not boyfriend girlfriend, just friends.
— Friend, No Benefits
What advice do you have for F.N.B.? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
As long as it was clear to both of you from the beginning that this is a casual situation, why not?! The whole point of friends-with-benefits is that you’re not oblidged to keep going.
I have a close friend who was with benefits for a while four years ago. At some point I lost interest and we went back to being just friends, which we still are. In fact, I think our friendship is better due to that past, because we are able to communicate very openly with one another, especially when talking about OTHER love interests!
Anything’s possible, but probably not.