Season 8 Episode 4: 8-year Friends with Benefits

Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

Relationships, Sexuality, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 910 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Julie and Andrew tell us about their 8-year journey from friends with benefits to a fully committed relationship. We discuss the evolutions that happen over time, navigating the ups and downs, and how a change of perception of the “right” person may reveal someone who’s been there all along. WE WROTE A BOOK! HOW TO BE DATEABLE (Simon & Schuster) is available now: https://howtobedateable.com/ Want to remove distractions from your dates? Download Brick and get 10% off at https://www.getbrick.app/DATEABLE Our Sponsors: * Avocado Green Mattress: Check out their mattress and furniture sale: https://avocadogreenmattress.com/DATEABLE * Get Rain of Shadows and Endings wherever books are sold or at Kensington Publishing https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Quince: Get free shipping and 365 day returns at https://quince.com/dateable * Ruggable: Get 10% off your first order, sitewide, with promo code DATEABLE at https://ruggable.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The dateable podcast features real stories from real people of how they make modern dating work or not.
0:05.8	Each episode will not only offer you a new perspective on dating, but will also change the way you date.
0:11.8	I'm your host, U.A.
0:13.0	former dating coach turned dating sociologist.
0:15.6	You'll also hear commentary from my producer Julie Kraftchik and other surprise co-host.
0:20.3	Hey everyone. host.
0:30.0	Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Datable, a show all about modern dating. We've all heard about Friends with Benefits and the Friend Zone, but I don't think we've ever heard about an eight-year
0:38.6	Friends with Benefit relationship before.
0:40.6	I have a friend. She hasn't been on the
0:43.4	podcast though, but we have people on the podcast. Okay, I thought you would be like, I have a friend
0:48.1	will benefit. I'm hiding it for you for eight years.
0:52.6	Way to play the long game, guys.
0:55.6	So I have Julian Andrew here with us in the studio.
0:58.9	Julie is 29 years old.
1:00.6	She's lived in San Francisco for six years,
1:02.4	originally from somewhere
1:03.4	really far away Palo Alto and Andrews 28 years old has also been in San
1:08.9	Francisco for six years actually from somewhere far away Albany York, and they're now in a monogamous
1:14.8	relationship with each other, yes?
1:16.6	Yeah.
1:17.6	They're here to tell us about their eight-year story.
1:23.7	And they met in college in Boston,
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