One question to ask is how this arrangement might feel for you, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Whatever you decide, it’s important not to constantly feel like this is an open question
My long-term partner says he wants an open relationship. I understand why, but it feels one-sided. What should we do?My partner and I have been together for six years. At the beginning of the relationship we talked about monogamy, he’s never been in an open relationship but likes the idea of being in one, as he’s cheated in the past.
We can ask good questions about whether sex should have this big a role in our lives. Some people are able to de-throne it: to say that sex should be unrestricted, not because it’s so significant and serious and deserving of angst and poetry, but precisely because it’s not. They’re able to get into a relationship with sex more like sharing a laugh with someone: not worth tears and rules.Crucially, the answer can be “no”.
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