ur bf tells you that he wants an open relationship. do you accept?

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Portugal
August 8, 2012 8:36am CST
hi guys how are you all?^^ i was just wondering.. if your lover asked you to have an open relationship with you would you accept it? ^^ about me i wouldnt. i wouldnt want the guy i love be kissing or sleeping with someone else. what about you? i understand that some people want this kind of relation and are happy with it. im not judging anyone here. but for me i wouldnt do that cause i would be sad. what about you guys? could you do this? share your opinions please
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
8 Aug 12
Personally no I would not want that kind of relationship. But you do have to respect the person for actually bringing it up to you or asking you. Most people won't say a word and they will just cheat on you. At least you know up front what the other person wants. Then you have the option to accept or decline.
• Portugal
9 Aug 12
yes i totally agree. at least the guy is honest^^ but for me i wouldnt accept this. cause i wouldnt be able to accept that he needed other girls too to be happy. if he needed others is bcs i wasnt the right girl for him. and when you like a guy is hard to accept that other girl is the one. but its like you say if the guy will play around with others at least he should say to the girl he is with. to cheat is the worst thing.
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• Portugal
13 Aug 12
yes^^ the person the guy is with isnt the one for him. so the best was to let him go. im happy you found someone that thinks like you. i just wish the guy i like doesnt want open relations or something. when we like someone we dont want to let it go. but sure if i like a guy and he wants it then i have to give him up. wouldnt be easy but would have to be done. thanks for your opinion^^ be happy with your gf always. have a nice day.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
10 Aug 12
I agree with you here. If they need to be in an open relationship then the person they are with is not the right one. It would be the right person to make that person stop what he is doing. It's not my cup of tea either. I am happy with the girl I am with.
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@jureathome (5361)
• Philippines
8 Aug 12
Can you really call it a relationship? For two people to be comfortable with this situation, there can be no love or emotional attachment between them. It's all about lust, and no love at all. I wouldn't agree to this, at all. I could not call him my boyfriend, if he is also engaged with other girls.
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• India
8 Aug 12
You said it.
• Portugal
9 Aug 12
yes jure^^ you are right. i couldnt call a bf to a guy that wanted something like this. its like you say it would be only lust. i was just wondering how many people would accept a situation like this. bcs there are many modern people. but for me i couldnt want it. bcs if i like a guy i wouldnt want him to sleep with other girls. for some people this is an ok thing if they are not serious. but even not serious i wouldnt want it.
• Philippines
9 Aug 12
I think for those who like this kind of setup, they are those who don't honor commitment. And, what if either of them would eventually fall for the other. But the other person is not ready to give their all to a serious relationship. Either or both of them will just end up hurt and devastated.
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@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
8 Aug 12
I think this can be happened when both have the same opinion on the same topic. As long as both the parties have the same feeling, it may happen but those who are more concern about their values and may not get ready for it, and perhaps this person won't get a chance to ask her again for it.
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• India
10 Aug 12
It is as simple as just having food from different hotels. We need food and many a time we prepare at home and eat food for 3-4 times a day. Some time we feel to have food from outside, may be good hotels, small hotels for a change and every body like this change. Here also the matter is not different, as long as people looking for a change and they may be thinking what is wrong in it. Also, it is nowhere written that you eat from home only and eat the same stuff for the whole life period. People want change and this is the result of diverted thinking and they have the justification for it. Those who don't want to eat from out, just be in the kitchen and cook and eat how much they want and whatever they want. I hope yout got what I mean... Regards
• Portugal
13 Aug 12
i understand what you say. but i disagree with it. open relations are not love relations. its just lust in my opinion. bcs if you love someone how can you see him sleeping with someone else and dont care? i dont believe that that is love. for me they just want to have fun and no commitments at all. love isnt like food also. you cant play with people feelings like that. is ok to be free but if you want to be free better not be with someone in a relation. the best is to everyday go have fun without commit.
• Portugal
9 Aug 12
i guess you are right. it will work only if both have the same opinion^^ cause if one wants this and the other wants a closed relation it wont work. i mean both will be unhappy bcs want different things. i guess those questions are a bit hard. cause everyone is different. i would just like to see more opinions of those that say is ok for them to do it. cause i want to know how do you handle the fact that the guy you love is sleeping with other girl and you dont mind it. i dont understand it.
• Valdosta, Georgia
8 Aug 12
I feel open relationships are their way of saying you alone do not satisfy them in some way. If that is the case, I say find someone that does satisfy you, I am gone! Lol. I would not be able to hear those words and still be with the person. If I cannot make that person completely happy now there is no point in trying to make the relationship work.
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• Portugal
9 Aug 12
well i guess you are right :) if a guy says that to a girl then i guess he means he isnt happy with her. to me this didnt happen but if happens i will just refuse to be with him. i wont want to see his face even^^ i wouldnt be happy with a guy that wants other girls and me also. if he loves me should want only me right?^^ anyway i would like to understand how for some people is ok that. to see the guy you love sleep with other girl. for a few ones they accept it. how?
• Portugal
17 Sep 12
she told him what to do with the woman? im really surprised! i mean i couldnt do that. seeing my bf with a girl would be already bad but telling him what to do? i dont understand it. some people have really weird fantasies. if i had a bf that wanted to do swing i would refuse it and leave him. i dont disrespect people that do it but i couldnt do it at all.
• Valdosta, Georgia
13 Aug 12
That's right, if he loves you he should only want to be with you. You should be the only one that makes him happy, you should be enough. If not then it would be crazy to stay with that person. I know your not talking about your own situation here. Lol. I have NO idea how some people are okay with this. I was friends with a woman where her and her husband were swingers. They would sleep with another couple, her husband would sleep with the other woman right in front of her and she loved it! I was like what? I don't understand it, never will. That would break my heart in a MILLION pieces watching my husband sleep with another woman. She said it was the "control" she had over the situation. She told him what to do with the woman. I don't give a darn about control, I could not handle it!!
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@chum24 (569)
• Philippines
17 Sep 12
hi..!! well i will tell him frankly that i don't like it!! i would not allow him if he wanted it. we must better to be separated!!
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• Portugal
17 Sep 12
yes chum. im happy you would be direct and honest with him^^ if you accepted something like that you might end up hurt. the best was to go and find a guy that valued your feelings. and wanted to love you only.
@Ixodoi (445)
• Israel
8 Aug 12
If my husband will ever even mention it, he will find all his stuff thrown out of the house. Don't get me wrong, I love my husband. Yet, such a proposal is insulting, and suggesting he doesn't really care about you and he is just looking for a way to "have fun" with other people without losing the comfort relationship he is in right now. I honestly believe that most men that ask this question mean for it to be a "one-side" open relationship. And if their woman will find someone they will go insane about it. So if a person doesn't care to do to you something he isn't willing to accept other will do to him - he isn't worth it.
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• Portugal
17 Sep 12
i understand what you mean. for me would be offensive too. i mean who wants to share the guy we love? for some people thats normal but i dont like it. i respect their opinions but i wouldnt do this. if i received a proposal like that i would tell him to find someone else.
@Ixodoi (445)
• Israel
18 Sep 12
Then we see eye to eye on this issue.
• Southend-On-Sea, England
9 Aug 12
I wouldn't be able to do it myself, although I do know a couple of people who are happy with an open relationship and can accept it.
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• Portugal
17 Sep 12
yes there are many people that like it. and i dont judge them. actually if we were all the same the world would be boring. i just couldnt do it bcs if i love my bf would be hard to see him with other girls.
@trisha27 (3494)
• United States
8 Aug 12
I wouldn't want that either. I'm a very jealous person and I don't like to share my men. I think if they really do love you then they wouldn't want to be with anyone else and they wouldn't ask you to have a open relationship. So I would tell my husband no, I don't want an open relationship and if he still insist on it I would break off the relationship. I was watching doctor phil yesterday and there was this couple that were married and they have an open relationship and they thought that it was the greatest thing in the world. I just think its disgusting and how sad it is that they are not staying committed to their marriage vows. But people have a right to live their lives the way they want to live them whether we agree with it or not.
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• Portugal
17 Sep 12
yes trisha everyone is free to do what they want. but is hard to accept that the guy you like wants to be with other girls too. if he wanted that its bcs he didnt love me. he might like me but not love me. so i would leave him. for what i need a guy that doesnt love me? im wasting my time and my feelings. i respect people who does it but i couldnt. and being married and having an open relation for sure this i wouldnt do. these people should stay single i guess. but sure they are free to do what they want.
@hcp_nj (108)
• India
8 Aug 12
I think it is not an easy answer to do. It is depend upon where you are living and what are the social boundations there. We all want to enjoy our life with all respect and it it the most important thing to make life fruitful.
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• Portugal
17 Sep 12
in my country there are open minded and close minded people. but nowadays things are more open. i know that for some people to have an open relation is good. mostly for those that dont want anything serious. but for me i couldnt accept it. bcs the guy i would be dating with would be dating other girls too. i wouldnt feel happy with it.
• Mexico
10 Aug 12
Hi sweet love forever: First of all, I have to say that as a boy I am I would not suggest this neither accept an agreement like that. There's no such a thing as an 'open relationship'. A true realtionship demands commitment and if you really love someone you won't do anything that could hurt him/her ALVARO
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• Portugal
17 Sep 12
im happy you wouldnt want this. open relationships are very complicated to accept i guess. for some people is a good thing bcs they dont want commitments but for me would be impossible. i couldnt be with a guy that was kissing and sleeping with other girls. how could i know about it and allow it?
@ellebj (784)
• Philippines
8 Aug 12
I won't allow unless it for fling.. Things like that not to make things seriously and not consider that this people are serious...
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• Portugal
9 Aug 12
yes i guess those people just want to fling^^ they dont want anything serious. but would be hard if you accept to be with a guy in an open relationship. could you take to see him kissing or sleeping with other girl? im not a flings type. cause when i get too close to a guy i almost always have feelings for him. so would be impossible for me to accept it. cause everytime he was with me i would have to convince myself that is nothing serious.
• Dhaka, Bangladesh
16 Aug 12
You are very right. I would also say the same thing, as you have mentioned. Have a very nice day.
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• Portugal
17 Sep 12
im happy you also think that way. i know that in some countries there are guys that have a lot of wives. i believe that it is very unfair. i mean how can their wives be happy with him if he sleeps with all of them? its a life just with luxury and where is love?
• India
16 Aug 12
Hi friend, I am also in your sort, not interested in this kind of open relationship. In my country, it is against our culture. So most people in my country is conservative and don't support open relationship
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• Portugal
17 Sep 12
yes in india i guess thats forbidden. even more for woman to have other guys besides their husband. anyway im happy you also dont be in open relationships. i think maybe for awhile they find it fun to date many people. but then i guess it must be lonely. cause you just find fun but what about love? close relations are better.
• United States
8 Aug 12
If my man ever said he'd like to have an open relationship I'd show him to an open door. If it's truly a loving relationship, no one else is needed. I did something close to that with someone while in my early 20's til I woke up and smelled the coffee as Dear Abby used to say. Doesn't work in anyway.
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• Portugal
17 Sep 12
you did that to someone? you mean you had an open relation before? yes i guess open relations dont work very well. unless both are very open about things. but even i am an open minded person for me i couldnt accept that the boy i like would be with other girls. i would for sure leave him.
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
8 Aug 12
So what He's saying is,He's found or is looking for someone else but wants to keep his options open with you if you'll go along with it?
• Portugal
9 Aug 12
i dont have a bf right now. and the ones i had never suggested it. i was just wondering what was people opinions about it. about me i wouldnt accept it. i wouldnt want a guy to be with me and with other girl at the same time. but i saw some people that like relations like that. i guess that you wouldnt accept if someone suggested it to you. bcs the way you talked seems that your opinion is like mine^^ i dont understand if you like someone how can you be ok if he dates someone else also?
• Philippines
8 Aug 12
For me, I wouldn't allow him to sleep with someone else. What mine is mine, alone. I don't like sharing my bf or my husband with other women. I'd just hurt myself if will allow him. I give respect to myself and I hope as a partner, he should also respect me as much as I respect him. If he wants to sleep with someone else, it would be better if he would end our relationship first before doing so. In that case, I won't get hurt that much.
• Portugal
9 Aug 12
i agree with you^^ how could we want that the guy we love slept with other girl? thats crazy right?^^ i mean for me that doesnt make sense. unless both the guy and girl just want fun. that way i understand. but to be in a serious relation and be with other people at same time its impossible for me to want that. its like you say, the best is to break up. if you have a bf that wants other girls and you the best is to say bye.
@riyauro (6421)
• India
8 Aug 12
If my boyfriend ever said that he wants to have an open relationship that would mean that he is not sure of me and I am just an option for him. This I will not allow to happen to me. I will dump him and tell him to find some other options open but soare me. I am not someones option, I am human and I need love. I am glad it never happened to me though. thanks for sharing. have a wonderful day.
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• Portugal
9 Aug 12
im happy this didnt happen to you^^ its like you say we deserve to be treated as humans and not as objects^^ to break up with him would be the best for sure. im glad that you never met a guy like this. i didnt meet also but if i did i wouldnt want it. he could find somewhere else. and is like you say if a guy suggests it is bcs he idnt sure of his love. if we really love someone we wouldnt want him to be with other.
@Shavkat (139933)
• Philippines
6 Jan 13
If your closest friend befriended with your bf, then they are not your real friends. For the sake of friendship, it is not good to look at and your friend is with your partner. Where is the loyalty? For me, it doesn't make any sense. Same as through your boyfriend wanted to have open relationship. It is not a good indication of strong foundation of relationship. It was like the partnerships between the two of you is just plainly a game for love.