• AcidBurn@retrofed.com
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        2 days ago

        Because sometimes people need shelter, food, or protection

        It can still be a transaction without money changing hands

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          2 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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            2 days ago

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

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                20 hours ago

                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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                  20 hours ago

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