By Jeevika Sharma)
1. The partners no longer feel emotionally connected to each other, but rely on each other for sexual needs.
2. The partners do not see their future together due to differing priorities.
3. Partners are not compatible with each other and meet only to fulfil sexual needs.
4. Partners do not wish to adjust with each other and are only together till they get married to another person or find another suitable match.
5. When one or both the partners start developing an interest in another person but do not break the current relationship due to addiction.
6. Lack of commitment in a relationship is also a sort of relationship that is more like friends with benefits. Relationships without commitment are equivalent to friends with benefits.
7. In a relationship, when there is an ongoing fight between the partners, most of them plan to remove the relationship tag while the rest remains the same. They do so to avoid any arguments and disturbances in the future.
8. The relationship turns into friends with benefits when the partners only meet such others just to make love.
9. Many times the partners who are in a relationship want to experience this trend of friends with benefits just by seeing others doing it.
10. When both partners are aware of families not accepting each other, the partners end the relationship but the attraction towards each other forces them to enter into a friends with benefits arrangement.
Jeevika Sharma)
