ut in my head im utterly confused. What causes women to say these retarded ass statements?

Power play

So as soon as I heard that I mentally checked out and started thinking bout spinning plates again.

Good.

She is not your girlfriend because girlfriends don't say things like this.

Im beginning to think this chick is really just too far gone, as smart as she is.

Yep

she's starting to gain weight anyway

Sign of lack of respect and attraction for you

Im going to branch out my options and keep raking in the benefits, but I'd like some more input just to further solidify my mind with good information

Well yeah, treat her how she is: FWB.

This is a girl who doesn't deserve exclusivity.

The simple answer is "Oh, so that's what we're doing now, cool".

Some women tend to say stupid things like that when they're unsure of your commitment or you're being very aloof with them. Like they're fishing for emotional investment, and they'd rather take a bad reaction over no reaciton.

It doesn't sound like you're taking the lead and steering the relationship in a good direction, for reasons you've mostly explained. The dynamics are largely in your control here, but your boredom with the relationship is making you lazy. Either end it or improve it. The "free food and easy sex" angle is just a hassle in my experience and not worth it while pretending it's a LTR.

Unless it was a joke, which it doesn't sound terribly like from what you wrote, you don't have a LTR, you have a plate. No need to go nuclear, enjoy till it breaks but explore other options. At least she has given you a guilt free opportunity to do as she has said she will do.

I have found that women can say things they mean seriously but know you will not like as supposed jokes. I am never sure if its just guilt making for emotional leakage or its their way of trying it out so they can back out if you react badly. It can make you quite cross because you can't be sure if you are being joked with but your insides are telling you she is not really joking.

It just could be a strange comfort test, to try to get you to say something more committing but then you would expect her to have come out asking for that not just saying she wanted a rise. One would expect something more like "well if you don't take me off the market, why shouldn't I" or "If you only love me for sex, there is a gap in my life I need to fill" if it was a comfort test made as a joke.

Gathering more information on this is likely to be better than wading in trying to find the truth of this one statement. Enjoy the sex and keep your eyes and ears open. It looks bad, it probably is bad but its best to be sure.

That would be a deal breaker for me, especially with her working at the biggest slut magnet short of strip clubs, OF and the army

Demote to fuck buddy in my opinion it sounds like she's more serious about her sudden independence and changes in life than a joke

She has all these changes and suddenly starts "joking" like that? I've heard similar "jokes" before about other men and it never falls far from the tree

Any women worth a relationship would not be jeapordizing it like that i think she is keeping her options open. Plus you don't seem like you want to be with her forever. I would just go out on top since she gave you an out and it's already her fault

Start spinning plates and don't regard this as an LTR any longer. I know exactly what you mean about the type of women who "aren't used to good men." They never get better; they'll always prefer lowlifes. You will not benefit in any way shape or form from a woman like this, no matter how good she might seem at a particular time. They always go back to lowlifes.