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"Hi glam gals! I&amp;amp;#8217;m Caitlin, the new Entertainment Assistant here at Glamour. I&amp;#x27;ll be writing about all things movies, TV (I&amp;amp;#8217;m an obsessive Gleek and psyched for the X-Factor) and music (anyone else catch Taylor Swift&amp;amp;#8217;s &amp;quot;Speak Now&amp;quot; tour?). I can&amp;amp;#8217;t wait to hear all about what you&amp;amp;#8217;re into, too! Speaking of movies, I caught a screening of Friends With Benefits the other day. (Caution: mild spoiler alert...) Even though the movie, which hits theaters tonight, garnered major cuteness points in my book (Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis = HOT. And the many JT bum shots didn&amp;amp;#8217;t hurt...at all), I have trouble getting behind the whole friends-with-benefits thing. It&amp;amp;#8217;s just never worked for me. Here&amp;amp;#8217;s why: 1. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve found that it&amp;amp;#8217;s nearly impossible not to get attached. After all, a friend with benefits should be a great guy (except maybe when it comes to commitment), which is why we&amp;amp;#8217;re friends in the first place. But it&amp;amp;#8217;s easy for me to get carried away with thoughts of dates and vacations and ohmigod Kate Middleton married a prince, why can&amp;amp;#8217;t I? I try to cut myself some slack though, because even Samantha Jones got attached every once in a while. 2. One word: Jealousy. &amp;amp;#8220;Friends&amp;amp;#8221; means minimal claim on a guy, so it&amp;amp;#8217;s possible that other chicks might come around. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m supposed to be OK with it, which I thought would be fine. Key word: thought. 3. The friendship may never be the same again. (That sentence could come with its own dramatic background music.) But it&amp;amp;#8217;s true: Sex complicates everything! 4. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not just the relationship between the two of you that changes, but the whole dynamic as a group of friends can change, as well. C&amp;amp;#8217;mon, it&amp;amp;#8217;s weird for everyone if you&amp;amp;#8217;re all PDA, but isn&amp;amp;#8217;t it just as weird if you&amp;amp;#8217;re not? 5. At some point, one of you will get awkward. This one, unfortunately, I&amp;amp;#8217;m way too familiar with. 6. No one is immune. Not even seemingly invincible Mila could avoid numbers one through five--and that&amp;amp;#8217;s reason enough for me. Have you ever had a friend with benefits that didn&amp;amp;#8217;t leave you, to quote Mila in the movie, &amp;amp;#8220;emotionally damaged?&amp;amp;#8221; If so, spill your secrets--I&amp;amp;#8217;d sure love to hear &amp;amp;#8216;em! Also, are you planning on seeing Friends With Benefits this weekend? Let me know how you like it! More on hooking up: * Is there a time limit for hooking up with a guy? * 5 rules for booty calls * 4 ways to avoid the regrettable hook-up More Ways to Get Glamour: NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard! Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad--print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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