What is the purpose of an open relationship/marriage?
Why not just stay single and do what you’re doing or just have friends with benefits?
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Graylight · 51-55, F
A marriage is with a soul mate, a partner. That one person is tasked with exciting and surprising you, offering you shelter and stability, showing you new things about yourself in the world, being your touchstone from where you begin to see the world. A partner is the known, the certain, the safe, but a partner also stretches the boundaries, offers adventure and pushes us toward the unknown.
That's a lot for one person to be to another. Sometimes, one way to bring excitement into the union is with another person. Sometimes they can offer something more superficial but just as desired. And sometimes, it's just fun.
The key to an open marriage is to enjoy it together, and never to use it as a reason to stray apart.
That's a lot for one person to be to another. Sometimes, one way to bring excitement into the union is with another person. Sometimes they can offer something more superficial but just as desired. And sometimes, it's just fun.
The key to an open marriage is to enjoy it together, and never to use it as a reason to stray apart.