This is a critique of “Communicative dilemmas in emerging adults’ friends with benefits relationships: Challenges to relational talk,” (Knight, 2014). The author was quite gracious in making a copy of her work available to me for my critique. Knight is an assistant professor in the College of Communication, DePaul University. Her research focuses on communication in non-committed sexual relationships. This review, in fact, is part of its author’s application to DePaul University for admission to the graduate program in communications. The intended readers of this review of Knight’s work is the admissions committee for that program. The friends with benefits relationship (FWBR) is a common and still-emerging form of relationship in today’s
