Hi Alana Massey,

Cool and well-written article. I’m just curious. What would be your reaction to this kind of answer(question being “Where do we stand”)?

“Our current relationship is a mix of friendship and sex. Friendship because I’m here when you need me, and I hope you can answer my call when I need you. Friendship because I genuinely enjoy being with you. Sex because we have grown up enough to acknowledge that sex is amazing, and that it is insanity to not enjoy our bodies when we have the luxury of health and youth. But we are not partners. We are not because one of us does not desire to actively partner with the other to grow his/her life project, whatever that project is. If you are slowly building a desire that our relationship will transform in being partners, then we should probably remove the sex from our relationship, and focus on the friendship only.”