I think I Might Have Feelings For My FWB

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So I posted to my zodiac message board but not much response so I'll try here lol.

I'm not sure...but I think I might have caught feelings. Not sure though.

Reconnected with someone from years ago. Spent vday together and we had sex. Kissed her forehead after hooking up. I hit her up a week after and said some kind of explicit ish lol, no response. Sent her another text the next week with kissing and smiling emojis she responded but then eventually went silent. She hits me up and tells me she's had some things going on with her but still wants to see me. Cool. A few days later I hit her up just to see how her week is going and we end up talking all the way through Saturday. She tells me I'm hard to read so I tell her why and since I'm so hard to read that she can ask me anything she wants to know. Anyways I tell her I want to see her and she tells me she's sick (I see her snap and she's def sick) but still wanted to see me but she understood if I didn't want to come by and wanted to rain check. Tell her we should rain check tell her I hope she feels better with the kiss emoji.

I was setting this up as FWB but now I'm not sure if I caught feelings.
Any guys on here treat their fwb this way?
Am I just in denial or what? What do I do?
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Aww you caught feelings. It's okay. It happens to the best of us.

So yall both set this up as a FWB? Can there be a negotiation on yalls terms and conditions lol or is it set in stone as strictly FWB.

I'd play it cool and try not to get deeper in my feelings if I were you until you know that it could progress to something more.

Do you think you can even continue as FWB knowing it may never be more than that?
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Posted by JustALeo
From what you said OP, it sounds like you wanted the FWB and she didn't.

A forehead kiss!?! You messed up there, those are meant for relationships, I consider the forehead kiss more connecting than a regular kiss.

Sounds to me like you weren't expecting to catch feelings, but after you spoken to her and everything, you realized how amazing she is. If it was a fwb type thing, you're supposed to keep the distance when you talk and keep it light. It sounds like you went relationship mode without even meaning to.

I had a fwb thing with this older female once, we hooked up the first time, she thanked me for the night and then we didn't talk all week. We worked in the same area and we'd just act like nothing happened or we didn't know each other. But sure enough weekend came, she hit me up and we met up for sex again and again. We joked with each other here and there afterwards, then a few weeks later I asked her for sex and she said yes and I just kept getting it. So after awhile I just realized I needed more and I couldn't see myself in a relationship with her so I backed off and she was cool with it. I think that's a FWB should go, nothing more and being civil about it. NO FEELINGS!!!
haha I know I messed up with the forehead kiss thing but outside of that doesn't it seem like I've been treating it like a FWB? I thought I was treating it/her the way a FWB should be treated.
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Posted by JustALeo
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Posted by JustALeo
From what you said OP, it sounds like you wanted the FWB and she didn't.

A forehead kiss!?! You messed up there, those are meant for relationships, I consider the forehead kiss more connecting than a regular kiss.

Sounds to me like you weren't expecting to catch feelings, but after you spoken to her and everything, you realized how amazing she is. If it was a fwb type thing, you're supposed to keep the distance when you talk and keep it light. It sounds like you went relationship mode without even meaning to.

I had a fwb thing with this older female once, we hooked up the first time, she thanked me for the night and then we didn't talk all week. We worked in the same area and we'd just act like nothing happened or we didn't know each other. But sure enough weekend came, she hit me up and we met up for sex again and again. We joked with each other here and there afterwards, then a few weeks later I asked her for sex and she said yes and I just kept getting it. So after awhile I just realized I needed more and I couldn't see myself in a relationship with her so I backed off and she was cool with it. I think that's a FWB should go, nothing more and being civil about it. NO FEELINGS!!!
haha I know I messed up with the forehead kiss thing but outside of that doesn't it seem like I've been treating it like a FWB? I thought I was treating it/her the way a FWB should be treated.
Nope, outside the forehead kiss it seems like you were over pursuing. The emojis thing is too much, honestly I don't think you're meant to be FWB's with people because you went into relationship mode without even knowing it. I've done that before and it just ruined everything.

When it comes to FWB, you've got to keep the contact short and nothing emotional. Sure be friends but not like close/cool friends or you'll catch feelings somehow, when you want to get some send a message and if she doesn't reply or isn't interested, cool walk away. Don't over pursue, if she wants the "D" she'll message you and if you're up for it then go for it. FWBs need to be light, sometimes I wondered if I messed up a FWB when I stayed the night after the sex or even cuddled a bit.
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Damn. Yea I've been doing this all wrong. So as far as communicating with a FWB it needs to be "hey whats" waits for reply..."oh ok so are you trying to come over?"...something along those lines?