I can't speak to the homosexual experience, but it seems like a terrible terrible idea for heterosexuals. Monogamy is far and away the best system for family stability, child rearing etc. What happens when an unplanned pregnancy occurs and one of the parents is not part of the "core" relationship for example? It seems like a recipe for divorce, poverty and heartache.
Unnatural, ungodly. Would never work in the real world.
Leaving God and "nature" out of it, I personally know many gay couples in open relationships that seem to work. Anyway, here is a bit of data on it.
I read an article few months ago, that it's quite common among the gay community in West Hollywood, and it working rather well,
I consider myself a very liberal person socially,
but when my partner kept bringing it up, I was extremely hurt, I just don't like sharing, we broke up because of it,
it might be selfish of me, I dunno, I guess I'm not so liberal or open minded after all,
But as I intially said if people are happy and ok with it, I can only wish them the best of luck 😊
Alternatively, perhaps your partner was selfish for not respecting your feelings?
Also, I'm a tad confused about you thinking yourself not liberal. I don't see any conflict between wanting to live traditionally in your own life and social liberalism. There's this strange tendency in social liberalism to conflate the political/social with the personal that I find perplexing.
Generally supportive, but I agree that it doesn't work for every couple.
I will say that I think many people's notions of cheating and infidelity are quite antiquated, and I don't think I would have any issue being in an open relationship if there were clearly communicated, mutually agreed boundaries about what my partner and I wanted out of it. I am a gay man, so my opinion probably skews liberal on this topic.
Could you elaborate?
