This essay will examine the qualitative aspects of an adolescent and relationship-based study of “Friends with Benefits” and how the findings are useful both in understanding the human relationships and in the benefits that these can have for an individual on both a professional and personal level. We will also examine the disadvantages of qualitative research and its limitations documented by the scientific community through a series of articles and studies, as well as the contributions that qualitative research has offered in various fields, particularly psychology. The concept of friends with benefits is an interesting topic, because it goes against the status quo of what constitutes the line between friendship and romantic relationship. It is also a topic that requires qualitative research to truly understand. Statistical research, while useful, does not allow us to understand the intricate reasoning and series of events that can lead someone to be in a friends-with-benefits relationship and how this affects an individual on an intimate level (Parker, 2007). Qualitative the Research is used to gain a deeper understanding of human behavior than its counterpart, quantitative research. The two important questions when performing qualitative research are why and how an individual made the decisions they made. The disadvantage of this research method is that it only provides a clear view of the behaviors and decisions of the people studied, and to draw conclusions outside of the sample group would require quantitative methods to support these conclusions. However, some researchers intertwine the two and argue that doing so could improve research on topics that require both perspectives (Ann L Casebe... half of the article... The article on FWB in particular is a good topic for qualitative research as it requires the experiences and causes to generate an understanding of FWB relationships and the individuals who engage in them This study however focuses not only on a very specific age group, but also on the city and involved only two men of the eight participants. This obviously means that the paper is not representative of the general population and that there is a large margin for error in relation to the findings. This is a common criticism of qualitative research, although due to its insightful nature, have been recommend using both qualitative and quantitative research to reach a conclusion on a topic. It is certainly arguable that a combination of the two is the best way to support or build a theory. (Ann L Casebeer and Marja J Verhoef 1997.)