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The difference between a Companion and a FWB
March 02 2014
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RHP User
12 years ago
Companion = is an old fashioned term for your dog or cat, elderly people who are have friends usually without sex, someone who is settling for someone because they are lonely, two spinsters hanging out. FWB is my friend. I can call when I am sad or happy or bored. We can hang out, go to the movies or beach or a show whatever. Someone I can confide in. And then there are the benefits. I 100% disagree with everything you have said Sweetgem.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I agree with you bothreason is that you take what you want as an individual regarding what each means to you. I have friends with benefits but they are not sexual. They help me with all kinds of things, including walking my dog, or looking after my house or gardening, and I have a female friend who is the most wonderful friend with benefit in that regard. companion I think of someone that may live with you. And that you potter around the place and go places together. or you can be both, a companion and a friend with benefits. all relationships are only defined by those that live with in that relationship. LadyT social anthropologist
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RHP User
12 years ago
...and without looking up the definitions, I take 'Friend With Benefits' to be a step up from 'Fuck Buddy'. A FB being someone you can call on to scratch that itch but that being the full extent of the relationship. You can spend time with a FWB without it being purely sexual. As the word suggests, a companion is someone you spend a lot of time in company with. A friend can be an acquaintance that you are fond of but not necessarily spend a lot of time with, as in online friends. I don't think 'companion' suggests sexual activity unless specified.A 'Companion With Benefits', ...now that would be something really special.Anyone applying for the position???
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sweetgem
12 years ago
Sorry Meeka if my question about the difference between a companion and a FWB has frustrated you a little, because you have defined your interpretation before. I know and I'm sorry for having to ask again. The reason I'm asking the same question again is, I have seen more and more attached/married people, who are seeking the extra spice outside their full time relationship, often adopt the FWB term to describe what they seek, when all they really want is just sex and nothing else! So it confuses the hell out of me, and so it gives me the impression that FWB is merely used to describe people who only get together for sex only, and hence it puts me off from using the term FWB to describe what I seek on RHP!!! Argh, the mighty of English language and the way how some people use their words and ruin the real meaning of them!!! - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
If somebody said To me they wanted an FWB relationship it means they are looking for a friend. I guess you can have all sorts of different friendships too, some friends you hang out with & see most weeks, some you only chat on the phone with for example. FWB is different things to different people depending on what sort of friend or sort of benefits they want. But the underlying concept is friendship as opposed to someone they just fuck. So FWB doesn't automatically mean that you go out and enjoy non-sexual activities as well. To me a married person who says they want FWB but basically only wants to meet for sex wants an affair or lover someone they can get to know a little... They have their companion at home, you are the benefit thy are missing. I assume
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RHP User
12 years ago
Is it hard to maintain without wanting to take things further? Have any of our forumites had relationships that wouldn't remain within the confines of their definition?
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RHP User
12 years ago
Jensman, like anything things develop and evolve. If you are talking about married people... Well lots of married men have a policy of not meeting the same woman more than a hand full of times so they can avoid any complications.... So my friend who is into married men tells me. These terms are useful as a way of having a bit of an idea what the other person is looking for, that's all. A conversation starter. They are not meant to be a set in stone arrangement.
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RHP User
12 years ago
FWB - someone whom I trust and would feel comfortable seeing regularly. The bond/ties, include physical/sexual connections, more so, than friendship. A previous fwb preferred to initiate contact, so I guess it was more sexual on his part. Companion - friend, someone who is happy to be with me and be seen with me. We may spend a lot of time together because we share similar interests.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Companion - For me it's someone who you hang out with and/or watch a movie together or go places together etc (Basically good friends- that's it. No sex, Just close friends.) FWB - Is someone who you could hang out with and be comfortable with each other - enjoy great sex together. (Probably less 'Companionship') Booty call - Someone you barely know. Call them for sex and sex only.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I would always ask someone to define the term in their view, before entering into such an arrangement with them. This thread is a good example of why ... people define things differently :) For me: Fuck buddy - someone you know and fuck when the mood strikes e.g. booty call Friends with benefits - someone you have sex with more than once e.g. ongoing, but also hang out and do 'friend-like' things with. This could be chat on the phone, have dinner, go to the movies etc. Not heavy relationship stuff, but definitely doing casual stuff together now and then. Not committed, not exclusive. Companion - with or without sex? I have male friends/companions who I do things with but there's definitely no sex. I think of the term companion as meaning no sex. If I added sex into the mix, then I'd see companion as a step up from friends with benefits - ongoing, regular sex; the primary person I 'do' things with, take to events, meet the family etc. It's a borderline relationship in my mind, though maybe still not committed or exclusive. A tough one for me to define.
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RHP User
12 years ago
My line is whether or not I introduce the person to my kids/friends/family. My definitions are: Fuck buddy - someone to call when in need. Get my rocks off and walk away until the next time. Definitely not someone I would introduce to anyone in my social circle. Not that I am ashamed of the person, its just something that I wouldn't do. Friends with benefit - someone I get to see on a regular basis for sex, dinner, drinks, etc. A friendship exist in that there is respect and genuine affection on both parties. Not exclusive and definitely not a relationship and not someone I would introduce to my kids or family, but would not have any problems introducing to my friends. Companion - I see this person as someone who I hang out with and do stuff with like doing activities ie watching games, going to pubs, concert, etc. I would introduce this person to my kids because there would be nothing sexual that would be happening with this person. Just a really close friend of the opposite sex.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Even uses the word companion these days.....wealthy dowagers of the 18th and 19th centuries often had a paid companion.....more than likely some impoverished spinster..the word we use these days is simply friend....it usually doesn't have a sexual component..... A friend with benefits is euphemistically referring to a friend that you have sex with.....a fuck buddy is someone you only have sex with......I know couples who have a social relationship with the singles that they also have sex with..they have been friends with them,sometimes for years... It really is about your own understanding and interpretation Sweet Gem.....so just ask them what they are looking for...xx Q
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madotara69
12 years ago
Talking about rooting and us having a fellow or a lady, even another couple, so far with a guy joining to make three of things. That guy during the time will be thought of and treated as a companion. Providing us three companions decide to see reason with carrying on from where we left off, the next time we get the chance, make the chance. Then we would be FWB, the benefit is collected works in progress, it's convenient and can give a lot more meaning to a one off fuck for three. So it sort of has to be, companionship to become FWB, for three teamwork becomes what it's all about. As long there is two people, then more has no limits, how we would see to it all. Tara and I are friends and our benefit is that it can all be in good time, works in progress. Tara may see companionship, teamwork and our friend, a little more to the benefits. The only benefit that is unconditional that makes it all right, is Tara calls it what ever she wants, and "No" is not much of a benefit, it wouldn't harm our companionship and we would still be friends to our own benefits. Yep, companionship in our view is the essence for having any Friends with benefits, and the meanings those friends and us all benefit for a little naughty fucking, better we all fuck the next time round deserves the benefit over doubt, to the teamwork and passions for companionship. How does that look from this angle sweetgem? Mado Tara xx
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RHP User
12 years ago
FWB.......Some one I have met out of my close circle of friends and we have great sex. I do not SHOW my personal life nor do I want to see his. He is a secret in my own world. Companion...... Let you know when I am a 100. However, think companion is for two people who are lonely and just like the company. Sex is optional. Just my take on it...
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sweetgem
12 years ago
Thank you everyone for sharing your ideas and definitions of the two terms.....companion and FWB. I guess like what you all have said, it's best to ask the person involved for his definition, and set the arrangement between the two parties, etc. instead of trying to understand the terms alone. Once again, thank you all for the contribution of your ideas. I now won't let those who use the FWB term lightly confuse me lol - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
I am married so I have the love stuff from him I have a fwb - he's bi so we go shopping, movies that hubby doesn't like, go to the beach and have awesomely amazing sex. We also talk a lot. I can tell him bff stuff. I have a companion - he is a bull terrier that sleeps on the floor in my side of the bed. He also thinks he's a lap dog which is really funny when you look at the size of him lol. I also have a few booty call guys that I can ring just for sex. We barely talk and it's purely sex that we contact each other. They are my explanations but I am weird :-) - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'fitzychick' I am married so I have the love stuff from him I have a fwb - he's bi so we go shopping, movies that hubby doesn't like, go to the beach and have awesomely amazing sex. We also talk a lot. I can tell him bff stuff. I have a companion - he is a bull terrier that sleeps on the floor in my side of the bed. He also thinks he's a lap dog which is really funny when you look at the size of him lol. I also have a few booty call guys that I can ring just for sex. We barely talk and it's purely sex that we contact each other. They are my explanations but I am weird :-) - Posted from rhpmobile but not the dog, as mine is a German shepherd and he knows it. he just waits for the chance to chew some poor intruders face off. He may seem friendly but that's a ruse to convince you its ok to jump the fence. bit like married dudes, trust me I am not married they say...and be for you know it your emotions are chewed up like a like dogs fluffy toy. this is what ladies need to realise that on RHP 99.99999999999999 precent, of meetings are booty calls, if they extend after that well good for you. But its rare as rocking horse shit, so make sure you know what your in for here. any woman on this site can get laid, that's the too easy part. Hardly any women get any intimacy or continued relationship from here. so where men miss out on sex on RHP women miss out on the stuff they really want, but just don't admit it to themselves or too the men they fuck. if you did they would be running out of your bed and house as if it was on fire. LadyT the reality checker
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RHP User
12 years ago
Companion - friend you don't fuck. FWB - friend you fuck.
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