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5 Ways to Explore an Open Relationship with Your Partner

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Human beings have never been as experimental as we are right now; we are constantly rewriting relationship laws and dynamics with every passing generation. This is a tricky area to navigate and before you do, there are 5 things you need to consider first.

 

  • Be Honest

 

Having an open and honest conversation with your partner is such a crucial part of exploring an open relationship successfully. It is so important that you are both on the same page with this. Make sure that this is something you both want before getting other people involved. At the end of the day, an open relationship isn’t just a non-stop orgy – we all have feelings to take into account.

 

  • Decide How To Move Forward

 

Do you each have another person in mind that you would like to pursue a secondary relationship with or do you need to use a casual dating website like this site, to find your would-be suitors? Being in an open relationship is often more than just sex, and I get that. Monogamy is hard and often it feels unnatural – aside from penguins and otters; there aren’t many creatures that mate for life successfully. You need to figure out what will work for each of you individually first. That will give you a better idea of how equipped your relationship is to being open.

 

  • Don’t Get Bogged Down By The Romance

 

Make sure you are opening up your relationship for the right reasons. I can’t tell you what those reasons are exactly, that has to be up to each of you. What I can tell you is that unless your relationship is rock solid it likely won’t survive being open. There are other ways to bring the spark back into your relationship. People in an open relationship understand that their primary relationship has to always be the priority relationship for both of you, otherwise what is the point?

 

  • Set Ground Rules

 

Rules and open relationships may not seem like they go hand in hand at first, but once you consider the potential implications of opening your union up to others you’ll soon realise what I mean. Are you going to be open together, like a throuple? Are you going to agree that it is purely a physical or an emotional thing? How and where do you set the boundaries? These are all aspects that need to be hashed out before you take the next step.

 

  • Don’t Rush It

 

If this is something you have both been considering for a while, then you might be ready to take the plunge into being “open”. If you haven’t really considered this from all aspects, (jealousy included) then you need to hang back a bit. Open relationships have got to be a two-way street, just like closed relationships, the same rules have to apply to both of you. This isn’t just a drunken one-night stand type of situation; you have a very real relationship that you are risking by opening yourselves up to others and we all know too many cooks can spoil a broth. That can absolutely be done successfully and you could both end up being happier than you have ever been – just make sure one of you doesn’t end up feeling jilted.

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