Open relationships can be a very tricky and controversial topic to cover. Instead of stating my opinion or cold hard facts on the topic, I’m going to tell three mini stories that are all related to the subject of open relationships.

A college friend of mine claimed to be in an open adult dating relationship while we were both in college. Of course I assumed he just wanted to have as much sex as possible while pretending to be in a “real” relationship at the same time, but he kept claiming that the relationship was working so I decided to observe it for a while. It turns out he was lying and his girlfriend thought they were monogamous. Bad move.

Another two friends of mine, who were dating each other had an open relationship. They both set out ground rules and always claimed that it was going fine whenever anyone asked them about it. However, don’t believe everything you hear, because it turned out that the female in the relationship secretly didn’t like the “open-relationship” concept and wanted to switch to being completely exclusive with her partner. He was not interested in that idea and they broke up.

The third situation was pretty much identical to the second situation. For some reason it is almost always the female in the relationship who starts to become jealous of their man sleeping around with other women (understandably).

Personally I don’t believe open relationships truly work, and I also don’t believe that I could ever be in one. The idea of knowing my partner is sleeping with me and other random people at the same time kind of makes me feel sick to my stomach. I understand the general idea of why people think it may work, and why they may decide to try it out, but it seems to have a failure rate of 100% (in my perspective, at least).

What are your thought on open relationships? Would you try it if your partner asked? Are you for them or against them? I’d love to hear feedback in the comment section of the blog.

Later gators.

 

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