Friends with Benefits Ground Rules… a Six Degrees of Lust Giveaway
Four days until the release of the first installment in my brand new series with MLR Press, By Degrees, so I thought I’d introduced you all to Sam Shaughnessy…
You guys read that? Sam looooooves rules. He loves them so much he has one for every occasion, and that includes his hook ups. I’m extremely well acquainted with my boy’s rules, and now I want to hear yours 
That’s right, folks. In order to be entered into the drawing for a free copy of Six Degrees of Lust there’s only one question you need to answer: if you were in a long distance, friends with benefits relationship, what would be one rule you’d base the relationship on?
Easy breezy! And you have until Thursday, December 29th at 9:00 PM, EST to share those answers with me. I will draw one winner and make sure to send you a copy of Six Degrees of Lust, format of your preference, on the release day.
Good luck everyone!
Ooh, LD FwB relationship rules.
One would have to be:
No acting possessive.
=)
Agree.
Honesty. I think that is the basis for any relationship that is going to work, no matter what the other qualities are.
Jase
Absolutely
Honesty. Both parties would have to be honest with their feelings and lives so hurts and misunderstanding are kept to a minimum.
If you were in a long distance, friends with benefits relationship, what would be one rule you’d base the relationship on?
Lots of phone sex…lots and lots of it. No exceptions.
LOL all the time? Have you been talking to my Sam?
Ooh tough question. Honesty. I think if one is starting to want more than benefits then they need to be honest about it.
No twinks on the side.
But personally, I prefer the phone sex rule.
Honesty…that would be the rule to base it on. If you don’t have that….nothing else matters.
Hmmm, since it’s the “friends with benefit” relationship, my number one rule will be Mutual Expectations. Each know what should be expected from the relationship, no more, no less
No lying! And no lying by omission either!
For me it would have to be 2 rules – the first one totally non-negotiable!
#1 Condoms, each time, every time!!!
#2 Honesty about expectations and feelings, ‘coz odds are that sooner or later one will feel and want more than the other and that just has to change things so you don’t end up losing a friend!
*nods nods*
Such a toughy….
hmm… well for me personally; it would have to be trust, because if there isn’t any trust; what’s the point in being in a long-distance relationship if there’s no trust within both parties.
mmmm I think it would have to be ….
No feelings and no commitment but thats just me
Sarah S
We would need to be able to talk to each other. If you are too uncomfortable with each other to discuss issues it can cause problems. Honesty and openness allows both people to say what they feel, if one starts to have feelings or wants to end the relationship they can discuss it.
Have a Happy New Year!
Honesty. If you don’t have that, you really have no relationship, at least nothing worth saving.
Rule #1 would have to be honesty. You must have honesty in any relationship in order for there to be trust. No matter if it’s FWB or something more.
Thank you for offering the chance to win a copy, it looks great and I can’t wait to read it, wether or not I win it!
Congrats on publishing!!!
Happy New Year!
Pati
JPM6966@aol.com
Thank you, Pati
Happy New Year to you too!
Honesty would be the golden rule … even if it hurts!
Wow, it really says something about me (and my relationship with my husband) that honesty didn’t even cross my mind. That’s just a given in my opinion.
I know, I know. That’s naive. So sue me. =)
You just thought honesty’s a given, yes?
No glove, no love!
One rule = definitely honest communication
this is because with honest communication, whether open or monogomous relationship, at least when he cheat on me or vice versa… it’s better to be out in the open rather than festered in somewhere like a ticking bomb waiting to explode. then whether I want to forgive and forget that’s another story…
jessica
jessica_klang(at)hotmail(dot)com
My rule would be–
Only screw each other. No side dishes.
xD haha…
Happy New year, Taylor!
Thank you for this contest! :3
Judi
arella3173_loveless(at)yahoo(dot)com
No side dishes… love it!
Happy New Year to you too
And thank you for playing along!
open communication. Can’t wait to read it!
if you were in a long distance, friends with benefits relationship, what would be one rule you’d base the relationship on?
Honesty, always.
though I doubt I could ever pull a relationship like that off.
I think frequent communication would have to be the first rule.
My rule would have to be trust.
I trust you to be away from me.
I trust you to be honest.
I trust you to have both our best interests at heart.
I trust you to let me know when something is going on that I need to be aware of.
I trust the comfort you offer when we are together, whether that is a hug, a roaring drunk or simply smoking hot sex.
I trust you to put up with my bullshit and to know the real me…
My rule would be, complete honesty with each other.
I think the ONLY rule to have in a long-distance relationship/friends with benefits situation would be no lying. If the other person met someone that rocked their boat so to speak? I would WANT to know, cause you never know when that “convenience” thing would turn into “love”.
Stay as my friend, enjoy our time together and keep safe when we are apart
Honesty. To me honesty is important in any kind of relationship.
And the winner of one copy of Six Degrees of Lust is Pati. Congratulations! I’ll be contacting you soon
Thank you so much to all of you for playing along. And just so you know, I’ll be over at http://lcchase.blogspot.com/ tomorrow, so stop by for yet another chance to win copies of Six Degrees of Lust and Southern Winterland.
Congrats Pati