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"The concept of friends with benefits is pretty well-worn territory but last night&amp;amp;#8217;s episode of New Girl looked at the reverse situation (and of course, Schmidt Romney). The reverse situation was coined the &amp;quot;emotional fluffer.&amp;quot; For those who don&amp;amp;#8217;t know, while keeping it as clean as possible for our shy readers, a fluffer is a person on the set of a porn movie who keeps the star eh, ready for action. Jess&amp;amp;#8217;s will-they-or-won&amp;amp;#8217;t-they roommate Nick got a little miffed with her, saying, &amp;amp;#8220;I&amp;#x27;m your boyfriend without the rewards.&amp;amp;#8221; The rewards being well&amp;amp;#133;.you know. The rewards. The benefits. OK fine, the sex! His point was proven when she needed him to take her on a dinner date prior to hooking up with her new booty call guy Sam, to take her to Ikea, and to subsequently build her Ikea furniture. Even though it&amp;amp;#8217;s clear they both have some kind of feelings for each other, they decide to maintain their friendship for now (but not before an incredibly hilarious fight &amp;quot;You put nickels in the tip jar! Nickels!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The nickel is the only American graced with the face of Thomas Jefferson. I didn&amp;#x27;t realize you were on the fence about the Louisiana purchase, Jessica!&amp;quot;), while establishing some boundaries. Nick makes this face when he fights, and I like it. I confess, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been someone guilty of placing a guy in the category of boyfriend with no rewards&amp;amp;#133;but not on purpose! At my first apartment in college, this great guy lived across the hall. He was so much fun--we&amp;#x27;d eat pizza and watch movies on the couch, he&amp;#x27;d come to all my parties, and he could help me get stuff down off the top shelf when needed. I was totally single, but I just wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t interested in him in a romantic sense. I thought the relationship was perfect as is, but unfortunately, it eventually became clear that he didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to be the stand-in boyfriend figure unless he got the rewards too. Our friendship kind of petered out after that. Boo! But I suppose it was only fair to him. Have you ever had an emotional fluffer? (Or platonic boyfriend, for those who don&amp;#x27;t want to reference porn?) Have you ever been someone&amp;#x27;s emotional crutch without the rewards? And since I have neither boyfriend nor emotional fluffer right now, who should build my Ikea furniture? Don&amp;#x27;t say me, the last time I tried was a bona fide disaster. The flip side to the rewards: *10 Rules Of Being Friends With Benefits *6 Reasons &amp;quot;Friends With Benefits&amp;quot; Never Works *Help! My &amp;quot;Friend With Benefits&amp;quot; Is Stressing Me Out "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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