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Dear Em & Lo,
Some may call us v-card clingers, but my boyfriend and I have been together for three years now. Giving our virginity to each other was not our first first--we were incredibly inexperienced before meeting. Although the relationship began out of lust it has…
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Mathias was a German I dated in ’07 while he was on a break with his girlfriend. I didn’t find out I’d been in break territory until a week ago, when I ran into Mathias and he told me he’d gotten back together with his fräulein for the fourth time in their ten year…
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When we think of marriage,
words that often come to mind include "commitment",
"faithfulness", and "'til death do us
part," but we generally don't toss in "just the two
of us" because, well, that's generally assumed. But take
the unusual case of… Read More »
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Em & Lo
I am a 31-year-old male in California and have been married for 6 1/2 years. Back in March, my wife came to me one night and said she would like to discuss something with me...I knew it was something serious but never imagined she'd say, "What do you think about an open marriage?" She is conservative by nature so this took me by complete surprise. I have dated her since she was 18, she is now 28, and we have two kids. She says she doesn't want to leave me or the kids, but admits to feeling trapped -- like she never lived out her early 20's. We have discussed it over the last couple of months: she is persistent in wanting this. What are the positives of this and can it be healthy for a marriage?
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Let me get straight to the point: The idea
of an open marriage scares the beejeez out of me. It's not that I'm
judging couples who choose to go that route--do what you need to do
people--but the thought of "sharing" my partner so intimately does
not appeal to me personally. Then...
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It must be something in the air: The second book in a month to come out on open relationships is Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage by Jenny Block (the first is Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships by Tristan Taormino). While Tristan's is more guide,... Read More »
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Probably in reaction to un-evolved people like us who can't fathom conquering jealousy, two books in one month have come out on non-monogamy: the first is Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships by Tristan Taormino, one of our Bedpost Interviewees (the second is... Read More »
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After our post the other day on open relationships, specifically the one between Dan and Carrie being recounted on TangoMag.com, we got a note from an acquaintance who's in an open relationship:Do you think y'all have a subconscious bias against open relationships? Or that you're... Read More »
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We met Carrie Ann via our home-base website a few years ago, after our article on non-monogamy in New York magazine came out. She told us about her own unorthodox romantic situation and ended up as a featured subject in our Glamour article about women's sexual secrets: hers, of course, was her... Read More »
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