(disclaimer: great sex could null and void this entire idea)
i currently have a fake girlfriend. if you don’t understand, picture this: currently i am sitting on the right side of the bed typing, internet-ing. rachel is on the the left side of the bed grading paper. aside from the noises inherent in these activities, there is silence. not that weird sort of silence where people i desperately grasping at things to say, but the sort of silence that comes from comfort. shortly we will decided that sleep is important, at which point we will easily fall into the nothingness of sleep in the same bed. tomorrow we will wake, get her children ready, and go to work. this is what i mean.
really this is all the benefits of a relationship without any of the baggage.