Best friends with "benefits"?

Usually friends with benifits end up together(: me and my boyfriend have been together for 6 years(: I hope he pops the question soon, but we were friends like y'all for a long time. Then I decided that I was in fact in love with him, so I told him( what you need to do) and I asked him how he felt about that and he told me he loved me as well! So what I would say is there is a big chance he feels the same. You just gotta ask. When you say fooling around do you mean ually, if so take it slow, don't do anything that you will regret. One more thing if you think this will mess up yalls friendship don't take chances, take it slow. Hope I helped(: also hope y'all work out(: food luck!