Identifying and explicating variation among friends with benefits relationships.

This two-study report identifies and validates a typology containing seven types of "friends with benefits relationships" (FWBRs). Study 1 asked heterosexual students to define the term FWBR and to describe their experience with the relationship type. Qualitative analysis of these data identified seven types of FWBRs (true friends, network opportunism, just sex, three types of transition in [successful, failed, and unintentional], and transition out).