… could you really be together with someone without love ? Just for the sake of company and sex ? I don’t believe in this "we made our intentions clear to each other" pseudo-sensitive-modern-hip-x-generation-relationship crap... I think people are not machines or robots. They are changing, living things, and any relationship cannot be a business transaction. Emotions, needs, expectations, egos are always involved, and no matter how much you declare crap like "I just wanna be friends", "I don’t love you", "I am not ready for a relationship", and other statements, people always develop feelings, get hurt, feel maltreated, betrayed, etc, etc... I can see it also in the business world, or the normal day to day life. We are always involved in various kinds of ‘transactions’ with other people (for ex. me and my real estate broker, me and my lawyer, me and my plumber, me and my directors, you name it…), and once we start treating them as sheer transactions - they fail. Only when you apply extra human compassion, care, understanding, courtesy, and all that, these relationships actually work. ‘Cause even though we have titles ("broker", "lawyer", "boss", "employee", "actor", "director") we are still fragile sensitive insecure stupid ego-ridden human beings. Same thing in any kind of love relationship, whether its romantic, lovers, just sex, s&m abuse, platonic friendship, or whatever... have you read the play "Dangerous Liaisons" ? There's a great paragraphs there about how ANY relationship which doesn’t have en emotional basis turns at some point to disgust... (and that’s coming form a man/woman who are professional lovers...). So you told the poor guy "I was just left by my boyfriend, I need somebody to fill the void for the time being, keep me company, give me sex, and that's it. No strings attached"†?