Is Threesomes a Precursor to Open Relationships?
Is Threesomes a Precursor to Open Relationships? I let my boyfriend sleep with another woman five years into our relationship. It wasn’t that monogamy wasn’t working. We were a committed, happy couple who liked each other's company, laughed at stupid things, and had anal sex . But we were 27 and itching to do something insane, anything to make the march to 30 feel less like a death march. A threesome felt like a nice place to start: thrilling enough to push our sexual boundaries, yet harmless enough in the long run if things went tragically wrong. We weren't the sort to approach ladies in bars, and the idea of asking one of our buddies seemed too strange. Later that summer, at a friend's party, we met a young art student. She was the free-spirited sort, the type that wrote poetry and spoke openly about spirit animals. She had light-brown hair and a welcoming grin. She stroked my arm and asked if I'd be prepared to proofread her art competition application