2006-07-28 06:30:22 · 5 answers · asked by caltam84 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
They work for some couples. I think the key is maturity and experience: very few, easily love-struck 20/30-somethings could take such an arrangement. But there are "open" relationships of a wide variety and it RARELY means "you date who you want and I'll date who I want".
Most so called open relationships involve forms of "swinging", wherein couples in entire groups conjoin for sex play. Sometimes one partner likes to "watch" the other with someone else. Sometimes "open" really means the couple in question has a thing for threesomes, or one, usually the woman, is bisexual.
Open relationships are the bastion of those who can compartmentalize "love" and "sex" and require each individual of the 'couple' be very secure, confident and generally so damn horny that dogs bark when they walk down the street.
If this sounds like you and your partner, go for it.
2006-07-28 06:45:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word open relationship is an oxymoron. It's not realy a relationship if you aren't commited.
2006-07-28 13:34:25 · answer #2 · answered by kel_kat28 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's my take:
Married almost 24 years. Wife no longer wants intimacy. Content to be without sex or intimacy and romance. I used to be very loving...cuddly etc, but she pushes me away like she doesn't want me around. So why should I try to be romantic with her? I've tried and it doesn't work.
A relationship where I could uuhhh....hook up with a woman who only wants the same thing......wouldn't be all that bad.
2006-07-28 13:36:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They rarely work out.
2006-07-28 13:35:11 · answer #4 · answered by pjthedj247 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Commitment without commitment--there's no point.
2006-07-28 13:32:56 · answer #5 · answered by happygirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋