I Love My Best Friend, We Hook Up, But He Doesn't Love Me Back

I Love My Best Friend, We Hook Up, But He Doesn't Love Me Back

“I want to prepare you that even with you doing everything ‘right’ and putting your attraction towards him to the side, this friendship might not work right now,” writes Bustle’s sex columnist, Sophia Benoit. “Not because you two aren’t best friends. Not because you aren’t enough for him as a friend or as a person. Not because you messed it up or made things weird. But because people act like total dipsh*ts when they’re newly dating and they often act like double dipsh*ts towards their friends that they used to have sex with.” Read More

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