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Can friends with benefits actually work?

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DailyBiteAug 25, 2015 | 16:39

Can friends with benefits actually work?

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About a year back, a girlfriend texted me around midnight. "I'm sleeping with a married man. It's amazing…" read her SMS.

I replied with a smiley.

I did not wish to impart any judgement on her character. Or his. Ask whether this was purely physical or serious.

"It's not that simple," she messaged again, a few months later. "I am falling in love… We are falling in love… I can't stop myself, and neither can he. He makes me come alive…"

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I sat up in bed. This was serious - more than a one-night stand or a casual fling. Was he in an "open marriage"? How could my friend break another woman's home? Did he have children? Was she playing safe? What if the wife got to know? Who would the man choose then? What rule would he want to live by?

Duty or desire?

What if he wanted both?

"She's a slut. Living in sin, with a married man, a father of two. Clearly, he's just using her. Who's going to marry her after this? Ussko haaye lagegi," a common friend of ours said, when we heard that she had started living-in with the man, in the same city as his wife and children.

"What if they are in love? Soul mates..." my words trailed.

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