If you are in a friends with benefits relationship, you should first make a proper assessment of your feelings before you decide to join a dating website.
It would be wrong to join a dating website without making this assessment first.
Take a moment to think things through.
Perhaps you have reached a point in your life where you want to settle down with someone or find a serious relationship partner.
This may be why you want to join a dating website.
This is a natural feeling.
Most friends with benefits relationships do not last long.
They are not designed to last long.
There will typically come a moment where one or both parties involved will want to move on.
Perhaps you reached the point where you realized that you wanted something more out of this friends with benefits relationship.
You may have hoped that at some point, your friends with benefits partner would have told you that they were interested in pursuing a more serious relationship.
You may be yet to hear this and may feel that it is time to move on.
The longer two people remain in a friends with benefits relationship, the higher the likelihood that one party will start developing deeper feelings for the other.
They may lie to themselves at first by telling themselves that they don’t have these feelings.
However, they will often notice that these deeper feelings are there when they feel a sense of jealousy whenever they find out that their friends with benefits partner is going on a date with a member of the opposite sex or when their friends with benefits partner refuses to be more expressive with their feelings.
They eventually come to realize that they can’t keep lying to themselves about not having deeper feelings for their friends with benefits.
They clearly do.
Again, the longer that you maintain a friends with benefits relationship, the higher the likelihood that someone will develop feelings for the other.
If you feel that you have gotten to this point with your friends with benefits, it may be best to let them know about this before deciding to join a dating website.
It would be wrong to join a dating website without bringing this to light first.
Indeed, your friends with benefits may have noticed that they have developed deeper feelings for you as well but may not have told you because they are worried about rocking the status quo.
They are comfortable in the friends with benefits relationship and may worry that they may ruin it if they were to be frank about their true feelings for you.
Hence, someone is going to have to take this step.
If you have reached the point in your friends with benefits relationship where you know that you have developed deeper feelings for your partner, it wouldn’t be wise to keep up with this relationship and also join a dating website at the same time.
All this will do is create chaos in your life.
You will only find yourself becoming more and more resentful that your friends with benefits partner isn’t showing you that they have deeper feelings for you.
The dating website may actually end up just being a tool that you use to try to scare your friends with benefits partner into wanting to get into a serous relationship with you.
You will end up using people that you meet on a dating website just so that you can hurt your friends with benefits partner.
In a scenario like this, no one wins.
Thereby, before deciding to join a dating website, ask yourself about what you are feeling.
If you have no feelings for your friends with benefits partner but you have reached a stage in your life where you just want to find a serious partner, there is nothing wrong with joining a dating website.
However, if you do have feelings for your friends with benefits partner and you are thinking of joining a dating website, it is best to resolve those feelings before doing so.
This means that you should let your friends with benefits know about how you feel first and foremost before proceeding any further.