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10 Signs You Should Ditch Your FWB (Friends With Benefits)

Friends With Benefits, affectionately termed, “FWB,” are both a blessing and a curse. A famous author somewhere in the world once said that “there are two sides to every coin.” This so-called coin is easily deciphered. On one side, the sex is endlessly available, no messy feelings are involved, and no one has to feel insecure about their bodies because the attraction is inherent in how you’re interacting with one another. The flip side appears when someone decides they want to be treated as more than an easy lay. Here are ten signs that your ride along the FWB Highway needs to come to an end: 10. Getting a, “U up?” text between 11PM and 2AM causes more annoyance than excitement.

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The 8 Stages Of A New Relationship

When you’re in a new relationship, you see the world through rose-colored glasses.  It’s almost impossible to be sad when new love blooming, and every time it happens, you’re convinced you’ve never felt anything like it before. Maybe you haven’t felt anything like it before, but millions and millions of people have.  New relationships always look similar to one another because budding love goes through a few easy-to-identify stages before the newness wears off.  Acquaint yourself with these stages so you’ll know what to expect next time you begin a relationship. Stage 1: Nervousness. Technically, this is the stage that happens right before a new relationship officially begins.  During this time, there’s a lot of wondering “does he really like me?” and “does he want to make it official?”  It’s enough to drive almost anyone insane, but it’s a good kind of crazy.  You can’t help but enjoy it. Stage 2:

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How It Feels to Have Never Been in a Serious Relationship

I’m twenty and I’ve never been in a relationship that’s lasted longer than a month or two. But so what, right? I’m only twenty. I still have my entire life ahead of me! I have goals and aspirations and things to learn about myself before I can properly settle down with someone. But it doesn’t always feel that way. Sometimes it just sucks, especially when it seems like everyone around me is in a relationship. There’s been times when I’ve wallowed in self-pity because I somehow convinced myself I’d be #foreveralone (I even have the tweets to prove it). And there’s been times when I thought it was the end of the world, like when I almost didn’t have a prom date and for some godforsaken reason I had to have a date or I wouldn’t go. Instead of thinking that I have my whole life ahead of me, I start wondering why I’ve never been in a serious relationship. I start to analyze every relationship

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Please Stop Assuming You Can Read My Body Language

I’ve had my fair share of times when people think that they know exactly what I’m thinking or feeling based on my body language. My arms are crossed? Well that must mean one of two things: I’m cold or I’m angry. Wrong. I’m slouching in my chair in class? That means I don’t really care about what’s being taught or I’m not paying full attention. Wrong. I’m not smiling or laughing at something my friend just said? Obviously I don’t like what she said. Wrong. The truth? Sometimes I just feel like my arms are awkwardly hanging by my sides so I’ll cross them because it’s comfortable. I have a tendency to slouch in class because the desks are uncomfortable and if I’m going to have to sit in one for an hour and a half I’m going to make myself as comfortable as possible. I don’t find it necessary to smile or laugh at

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20 Alternate Ways to Show Someone You Appreciate Them

It’s easy to get caught up in life and forget to tell the loved ones in our life just how much we appreciate them. We make up excuses and tell ourselves that we’ll do it later, but you never know if “later” is going to be too late. But sometimes it’s also just hard for us to convey how much someone means to us. It’s not always easy for people to say “I love you” or “I appreciate you”, so here are 20 other ways to do just that. 20. Spend time with them. This is probably the most obvious out of them all, but as college students with busy schedules it can be hard to coordinate time to spend together. Even if it’s just grabbing a quick coffee between classes or tagging along to buy groceries, just make sure you spend time with them. 19. Tag/send an article that reminds you of