Do open relationships work?
February 25, 2014 10:27 AM Subscribe
I ask more out of curiosity on how it works for other than serious deliberation for myself. I am also in SF, which is an area for more liberal attitudes towards sex.
I believe only in monogamous relationships for me personally, and I know I will never participate in an open one. However, I have had friends participate in non monogamous open relationships. Of those, I have observed the majority of them do not work. They eventually end up in terrible tangled webs of jealousy and despair.
My thinking is that open relationships really only work when the partners are not serious and are looking to keep options open. When I hear a couple is in an open relationship, I usually interpret that they are not the "one" for each other, or that the timing is not right for a serious monogamous one.
My question is: is my thinking on par? Are there ways open relationships are successful for people that I am not thinking of? Do they actually work?
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a really touchy topic and a sort of chatfilter "let's talk about this" way to phrase an unanswerable question. Maybe rephrase and try again.... -- jessamyn
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