Phoenix said:
The only "advice" I can give you is to have a large rotation, large enough so that you don't spend a whole lot of time with anyone in the rotation and when someone in the rotation starts doing things like 'buying you stuff' (a clear sign that things are changing) you either settle things with that person or put them on 'vacation' for a while.
I can only picture you on a dugout phone right now telling somebody in the bullpen to start warming up because your ace just didn't have it in her today.
And that's the most hillarious mental image I've had in a week.
Oh, and an edit. Most of the situations with my friends like this are initiated by the girls. Girls in college who just want sex without a relationship tend towards a relationship anyway, with this friends with benefits bullshit. Guys just try and fuck random girls on different nights. There are the exceptions, of course. I obviously can't say whether it is like this for everybody, but there's just some anecdotal evidence.
I can't understand "friends with benefits", hell, if I'm a friend with a girl I generally wouldn't mind having sex with her, but if I'm close enough to consider her my friend I'd also not likely mind being in a relationship with her. Again, exceptions exist, but on a whole it, like most everything else college kids do, makes little sense to me.