It's not "cheating" because everything is out in the open, and the couple is usually in the habit of sharing their feelings with each other often, so that everyone is always on the same page.
For some couples, the sex that happens outside of the marriage, is sort of like an intense form of masturbation; no emotional attachment is made between the spouse and the sex-partner. People in working open relationships still have sex with each other, and having extra sex-partners can be very exciting and stimulating for the couple and make their sexual moments with each other more intimate. An open relationship requires both spouses to have 100% confidence in their spouse that they will not leave them for someone else.
When you have a so-called open relationship where only one person is having sex outside the relationship, or if any aspect of it is hidden from the spouse, well then, it is not truly an "open" relationship, and should not be associated with this lifestyle choice. What it is called is; cheating.
I think that because too many people, who are in reality just "cheaters", say that they are in an open relationship to justify their cheating ways. Those people confuse the rest of society into thinking negatively about real open relationships because they can't tell the difference between the two.
It's not a lifestyle that I will ever lead, but at least I'm not so close-minded that I would label as wrong or a "crock-of-baloney" - that is prejudice thinking.
IIN to think that "Open" relationships are a crock of baloney?
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It's not "cheating" because everything is out in the open, and the couple is usually in the habit of sharing their feelings with each other often, so that everyone is always on the same page.
For some couples, the sex that happens outside of the marriage, is sort of like an intense form of masturbation; no emotional attachment is made between the spouse and the sex-partner. People in working open relationships still have sex with each other, and having extra sex-partners can be very exciting and stimulating for the couple and make their sexual moments with each other more intimate. An open relationship requires both spouses to have 100% confidence in their spouse that they will not leave them for someone else.
When you have a so-called open relationship where only one person is having sex outside the relationship, or if any aspect of it is hidden from the spouse, well then, it is not truly an "open" relationship, and should not be associated with this lifestyle choice. What it is called is; cheating.
I think that because too many people, who are in reality just "cheaters", say that they are in an open relationship to justify their cheating ways. Those people confuse the rest of society into thinking negatively about real open relationships because they can't tell the difference between the two.
It's not a lifestyle that I will ever lead, but at least I'm not so close-minded that I would label as wrong or a "crock-of-baloney" - that is prejudice thinking.