What is open relationship

Open Relationship refers to having sexual contact with others outside of a fixed Relationship. The open relationship has different specific ways, but the basic commonality is the sexual contact outside the relationship, which does not affect the relationship between the two people.

The ability to continue open relationships is mostly a long-term relationship between two people, a solid emotional foundation, a high degree of mutual trust, and a sufficient psychological maturity. In addition, both can accept the separation of sex and love. Open relationships can help long-term relationships if handled well.

From a moral point of view, as long as there is no harm to others, such as the relationship between sexual partners are fully informed, single, there is no deception, then open relationships are adults of the freedom of choice. Some comrades are very contemptuous of this phenomenon sometimes. Remember, if only because you don’t like, can’t accept, not according to whether the harm others to judge other people’s behavior, then it is no difference with homophobic hate gay.

Why open an open relationship

There are many reasons for the beginning of a throuple, and it is common that two people want to have a richer sex life. This is a relatively healthy situation.

But there are open relationships, and there is a problem with motivation. Such as relations between the two people on the brink of rupture, sometimes even one party has decided to interrupt, the other party in order to recover, advice/agreed to open relationship, this is the result of the doomed not to save relations, because the real cause of the rupture were ignored. It’s also hard to maintain that some people have completely replaced the sexual relationship between three people with other sexual behaviors.

Sometimes, there is a third party involved in a relationship, if have the relationship, there is no solid contact, it is possible to accept three people relationship, this is not what belongs to us here to talk about an open relationship, because open relationships are not included in the fixed relation, there is affection.

What should you pay attention to in open relationships

There are some basic requirements for open relationships. The relationship between two people should have a solid foundation, sufficient mutual trust, and not be jealous because of the other person’s sexual contact, or affect the sex life of threesome. Both of them should have enough psychological maturity to separate the unsentimental sex from the love.

A relationship is open to a decision made by two people, both of whom must have any reluctance. And even then, every once in a while, two people should talk about it, and maybe one or both of them have no intention of opening up as time goes by.

The basic thing is that you can’t relate to others outside of your relationship. Some open relationship partners, mutually agreed, do not have sex more than once with the same person outside of the polyamory.

It should be noted that there are infected with sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV, hepatitis b) may, with sex object is proportional to the number of, even in the case of security measures, multiple sexual partners will increase the chances of getting an STD. Therefore, a lover who has an open relationship, both of them should be more strict in their safety, and they need to take sexual security measures between them. You should also be regularly screened for STDS, preferably once every six months.