Knowing what to call your relationship?

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Knowing what to call your relationship?

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Hey everyone!

Have a little discussion topic for us all!

Basically there has been research than young people are becoming more likely to have different types of relationships than the traditional 2 partner relationship.

Now they are more often having sex with a certain friend but not calling them their boyfriend/girlfriend. Friends with benefits, seeing someone etc are phrases that are often used. Do you guys think this is becoming more common?

Personally out of my group of friends throughout my school and uni life none of them particularly had this, they normally just had boyfriends and girlfriends long term. Are you seeing this too or are you seeing more friends with benefits relationships?

Also I really don't like the phrase friends with benefits as it's such a cliche from movies, if you're in this type of relationship what do you prefer to call it?

Apparently a lot of us are having this kind of relationship which then leads into longer relationships as we get older. Do you think this has been the same throughout the years or a recent development?

Lets have a good wee chat :H

sources if you're interested

Allen, L. (2004). 'Getting off' and 'going out': young people's conceptions of (hetero)sexual relationships. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 463–481.

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Bisson, M. A., & Levine, T. R. (2009). Negotiating a friends with benefits relationship. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38(1), 66–73. http://ift.tt/1D4g6M8

Meier, A., & Allen, G. (2009). ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS FROM ADOLESCENCE TO YOUNG ADULTHOOD: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent

Health. Sociological Quarterly, 50(2), 308–335. http://ift.tt/1D4g5ry

Moors, A. C., Conley, T. D., Edelstein, R. S., & Chopik, W. J. (2015). Attached to monogamy? Avoidance predicts willingness to engage (but not actual engagement) in

consensual non-monogamy. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32(2), 222–240. http://ift.tt/1D4g6Mf

Williams, J. C., & Jovanovic, J. (2014). Third Wave Feminism and Emerging Adult Sexuality: Friends with Benefits Relationships. Sexuality & Culture, 1–15.

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