How do Ýou feel about open relationship? My girlfriend and I have been dating for over 6 months now and we have an "open" relationship. By that I mean that we both have permission from the other to date and be intimate with other people. I have met some people that are outraged by such a thing and other think its great. We both use protection and only "play" safe. What do you think?

That you both are not yet ready for a stable relationship.

I'm thinking that you won't be met with applause....most people here would be content with just having one relationship...


or even a date...without some greedy bugger wanting a harem...




For me personally, I don't care what you do, each to their own.

If that works for you, then okay.......but if I am in a relationship, and I am, there is no fooling around, no seeing other people and most assuredly no sex with other people. To me, an open relationship is no relationship just friends with benefits....not worth anything.


JMO

This is the only kind of relationship I'll get involved in. I tell every women I date that I am seeing other women and I do not want to be exclusive with anyone.

I also tell them that I won't talk about the others with them unless they are interested in having a threesom and I don't want to hear about what they do with other men.

I'm kinda agreeing there... this may not be the best place to ask. Many people on here don't even have ONE person, so you're gonna be told to be happy to even have your girlfriend... and cherish her.

Hey, if you can get it....hit it. more power to ya!

1) If you say you love each other, at this stage, anyway, you're kidding yourselves.
2) Someone always gets jealous. No such thing as ***k buddies who stay "together" for very long.

I tend to second that motion.

Hey, I'd be open to getting a wrong number about now.

Reply to BonnyMiss. Well that's an interesting opinion. I know a couple that have had an open marriage for 7 of the 9 years they have been together. That's pretty stable to me. We are both very sexual people and sometimes our work schedules don't allow us to be intimate with each other for days at a time. So we have other to fill the down time. We are very much in love and know how to make a relationship work. We are both divorced and had ltr's before meeting each others. Her marriage was 9 years and mine was almost 10. We live together and are totally committed to making our relationship last. We are not just F buddies at all. We just have F buddies for those times when we need to scratch the itch and the other is not available. We agree on who the other sees or it don't happen. I believe that we are very stable in our relationship.

JMHO..Stable in your friendship yes, but a relationship? I am not so sure............ . Good if it works for you, I guess (pardon the pun) "different strokes for different folks"

Ok here is one for size.....

When i got married, I Told my husband at the time, If you ever find another women that you find yourself attracted too and want to be with her, please tell me, I will close my eyes...

I married this man every 2 yrs giving him the chance that if he was not happy, if he did not want to be married that he could at any time leave with out regret.

So for the first 18teen yrs we married every 2 yrs we renewed the vowels.

Then i got sick and he took advantage of the situation, I told him that year I was not going to re marry you until you started to respect me.

That was the being of the Open relationship, before i new it he was with his soul mate and it was not me.

out of the 26yre 12yrs of it he was with his soul mate. So a open marriage or relationship, dose work for some, but for others it can harm the family, it can destroy the kids image of you as a parent.

My kids use to say, Mommy that is Daddy's girlfriends house... I would be crushed.. it was only around the corner 5 house down.

Or Mom, She is in the motel at the end of town!...

Open relationships end in a nasty battle, the hurt so many and for some thy can be great.. just be honest and don't lie and cheat and with hold information...

jealousy is a beast..... it will only hurt... Julie

I think to HAVE a relationship that YOU call it one, IT NEEDS to be closed as to SHARING intimicy with another...
IF THATS what ya want,,,WHY have ANY relationship, stay single and just date???? Life is complexed enough without twisting it futher to wonder what TWO our feeling or sharing,wink,lol

Why don't YOU say this right.

HEY, I am involved with a chick but we both like to sleep with everyone else,,SOMETIMES. Are YOU interested????

There,,NOW THATS TRUTH, man. In my mind..

safe is still not with out risk.. for me it defeats the pourpose of being together in the first place if your going to be intimate with others..also i really don't care to be biologically connected to that many people..but if it works for you got for it..

i'd be happy getting slapped in the face.atleast it means she thought of me

exactly!

Your not in a relationship your fu%k bodies that play house.

A relationship is a commitment to the person you love.

My humble opinion.

Geez, a whole few days without sex. The horror!

I consider myself an extremely sexual person. I'd have sex 24/7 if I was in a committed monogamous relationship. But I went more than four years without sex because I wasn't. Does it suck? Abso-fricken-lutely!!!! Big time might I add. Conversations can be casual, sex in my opinion can't. It kinda seems to me like you're both no more than glorified orgasm receptacles if you just dump it in whoever just because the person you supposively love isn't around.

JMO To each their own.