Do open relationships work?

Each person is different and every relationship is different. Open relationships are fire. Yes you can keep them contained but if you get careless you either get burned or you burn someone else.

I'm in total support of open relationships but you have to keep in mind it's socially taboo right now and you can't expect people to understand or respect it. Feelings are fickle. One day jealousy can sneak in even if you don't think it's possible. Ego is unpredictable.

Attachments are killers to open relationships because we are territorially motivated. Even though it's wrong to say you own someone or they "belong" to you, its really never that way. The more open the relationship the less you have.

If you start arbitrarily making rules for who or when they can see other people the damage sets in. It becomes silly after that.

I don't believe open relationships are social taboo. According to my son in his mid 20s they are rather common these days among people his age. I wouldn't do it, but I don't see anything wrong with it for people who want.

My advice is to make sure you communicate openly. That is the best way to make it work so that no one gets hurt.

Please don't start a new thread for you every thought. It is better to keep it all in one place. Or at lease at the last one you started.

No, that wasn't to you, Max.

How old?

The jig is up, Kitty. We're onto your games. Now come clean, see? Or we'll have to do it the hard way...

I can't be the only one who sees the contradiction in these two statements.

Carrie Jenkins makes the philosophical case for polyamory

CBBC makes a musical case for Balamory.

There's also a case for allegory.

I like things to be simple. If you are in a relationship then "no", you should not be seeing other people nor should your significant other being seeing anyone else. If you don't want to be in relationship, then break up. Don't drag someone else through your drama just because you want your Veejay stamped like a passport.