Open Marriages

[Harpy Eagle]

Marriage is much more than that. An "open" marriage is not a marriage.

In your opinion.

Others do not agree.

Thus the benefit of living in a free country.

 

[braalian]

I never understood the reasoning behind these so called marriages. Any man that would agree to this is out of touch with reality. Why get married if you want to bang other people?

And yet you have no issue with Trump’s infidelity?

 

[Anathema]

I never understood the reasoning behind these so called marriages. Any man that would agree to this is out of touch with reality. Why get married if you want to bang other people?

I’ve known several couples with in Open or Poly relationships. I’ve never been involved in any of them, but I’ve known the people.

For the most part it seems like there is something sexual that one of the partners in the original relationship can’t get from their partner. That second partner is trying to allow the first to get their needs met without dissolving the original relationship.

 

[Mister Iggy]

I prefer one person only. With my ex wife we did have a lot of threesomes and most of our married couple friends were swingers but i was not into having sex with friends like that. Call me old fashioned..

 

[Blaster]

And yet you have no issue with Trump’s infidelity?

I'm voting for Trump because of his policies and not for moral character.

 

[Blaster]

I’ve known several couples with in Open or Poly relationships. I’ve never been involved in any of them, but I’ve known the people.

For the most part it seems like there is something sexual that one of the partners in the original relationship can’t get from their partner. That second partner is trying to allow the first to get their needs met without dissolving the original relationship.

Then why be married?

 

[Blaster]

I prefer one person only. With my ex wife we did have a lot of threesomes and most of our married couple friends were swingers.

I had sex with a lesbian and her girlfriend.

 

[braalian]

I had sex with a lesbian and her girlfriend.

Cool story bro

 

[Anathema]

Then why be married?

How about because sex isn’t the only, or even the main consideration in a large percentage of marriages.

In one example the two of them were totally “in love”, but once they found out she would have little to no chance of conceiving a child he lost all interest in sex. He wanted kids. She wasn’t really interested in kids but had a very high sex drive. So he gave her permission to seek sexual gratification outside the marriage under certain conditions.

 

[Blaster]

Cool story bro

Yes, that was a real rocking good time.

 

[Blaster]

How about because sex isn’t the only, or even the main consideration in a large percentage of marriages.

In one example the two of them were totally “in love”, but once they found out she would have little to no chance of conceiving a child he lost all interest in sex. He wanted kids. She wasn’t really interested in kids but had a very high sex drive. So he gave her permission to seek sexual gratification outside the marriage under certain conditions.

So that guy was a cuckold.

 

[Papageorgio]

I never understood the reasoning behind these so called marriages. Any man that would agree to this is out of touch with reality. Why get married if you want to bang other people?

I agree, I know two couples that had an open marriage and both women got pregnant from another guy and that was the end of the marriage. But to each his/her own.

 

[Blaster]

I agree, I know two couples that had an open marriage and both women got pregnant from another guy and that was the end of the marriage. But to each his/her own.

Open marriages have a 92% failure rate.

Do open marriages work? - CNN.com

Can we talk? I mean really talk? I was deeply involved with a man (let's call him Steve) when he surprised me with an unusual request. One night, Steve explained that if and when we got married, he would always want to have a separate apartment where he could be "alone."

www.cnn.com

 

[Anathema]

So that guy was a cuckold.

He never watched (that I’m aware of); but pretty much. He was an odd bird. I really think he sawed lying her sex with him as a ounishment for denying him kids.

I’ve seen similar arrangements reversing the genders, poly groups and a smorgasbord of other couplings over half century.

I've never participated in any of the craziness but so long as they keep things private and consenting I say let them do what they want.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Open marriages have a 92% failure rate.

Do open marriages work? - CNN.com

Can we talk? I mean really talk? I was deeply involved with a man (let's call him Steve) when he surprised me with an unusual request. One night, Steve explained that if and when we got married, he would always want to have a separate apartment where he could be "alone."

www.cnn.com

Wow, how definitive...this one sentence from an article that is more than 14 years old...this is really the best you can do?

Some research suggests that open marriage has a 92 percent failure rate.

 

[braalian]

I'm open with everyone of all ages.

You might want to reconsider your phrasing there

 

[DakotaKai_fan20]

I'm open with everyone of all ages.

Gross! Now Joe Biden himself created an account to post that. Now the president is more crazy than I imagined.

 

[d0gbreath]

I've had quite a few married women try to hit on me. They seem hornier than single women.

It got to the point where I was nervous about going to the grocery (meat market) store.

Not many people want an open marriage, then cheat on their spouses.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I never understood the reasoning behind these so called marriages. Any man that would agree to this is out of touch with reality. Why get married if you want to bang other people?

To start understanding others -

If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them.

Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do.

Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be.

I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself to the possibility that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear as right-for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.

Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness.

And one day, perhaps, in trying to understand me, you might come to prize my differences, and, far from seeking to change me, might preserve and even cherish those differences.

I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, your colleague. But whatever our relation, this I know: You and I are fundamentally different and both of us have to march to our own drummer.