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[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-my-husband-and-i-have-decided-to-become-poly.248230/page-5

Jul 15, 2020
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After 2 years of marriage, we decided to open up our relationship to looking for fwb/poly sex/relationship with a third party. We downloaded the latest apps and started meeting people. We hooked up and had a threesome last night and it was awesome. It's absolutely thrilling to discover and explore sex and attraction and flirting with new people together. We're working with a couples counselor to make sure trust, communication, and jealousy are all kept under control during this discovery process for us as a couple. Our ground rules are that we are only allowed to have an encounter or relationship with someone or a couple together. It's kinda scary and new, but we're excited. It was so exciting to explore a new body together, new personalities, and to flirt again, but this time together, with the sanctity and structure of our secure intimacy as our foundation. Our individual therapists equipped us with psychological literature and books on starting poly relationships and sex and we are looking forward to discovering this new phase of our marriage. They explained to us that polyamorous relationships and sex can be beneficial to certain couples if it is handled carefully because it can relieve the pressure that builds for a two-person relationship to exclusively meet each other's needs, when in fact we were biologically evolved to be social, sexual creatures.

That's how these sort of threads always turn out. Lots of anecdotal about how bad the idea is or how things never work, when 95% of monogamous relationships are equally a disaster yet the discussion there is never as awful