Honey, I love you, but I need other lovers.

[Carnevil9]

What if your spouse/significant-other said that to you? What if you said it to them?

Of course, the immediate aftermath could be a break up of the relationship, but then we wouldn't have much of a story. Suppose the partner decides that they are enough in love to tolerate the infidelity. Maybe even embrace it? Would would happen next?

1. Okay, but I get to have other lovers too.
2. Okay, but you have to come home and tell me all about it
3. Okay, but I get to eat the cream pies.
4. Okay, but I get to watch.
5. No! I'll do anything, but please don't do it. Yes, I mean anything.

I'm sexist enough to think that this would be a very different story based on whether it was the wife or the husband who made the announcement, but I could be wrong. I suppose it could even be a same-sex couple.

Or it could be a MF couple, but the one planning to wander is interested in same-sex lovers. Or the other way around.

In any case, the drama comes from being in a relationship with someone and finding out that you are not enough for them. And trying to deal with it.

Thoughts?

 

[LupusDei]

I actually have ~850 word sketch upon this very thing, intended as beginning for a study on open relationships.

A bit too much to paste here. For what I planned, I assumed Johnny has no illusions Sally can ever stay faithful (perhaps knowing her history and how their own relationship started, also her fantasies about MFM threesome is well known).

So, when she mentions that she may consider to answer Markus rude and inept advances, he decides to soldier thru it. When it becomes apparent Markus is not a candidate for MFM, it is Sally who offers John to date her friend Kathy while she's busy with Marcus. John offers FFM threesome with Kathy if Sally will come home early. Sally is surprised but intrigued.

Eventually I planned for Kathy to move in for a semi-permanent third, although Sally would be looking for a boyfriend for her, suggesting to start dating Peter. She herself breaks up with Marcus when he becomes too possessive. John have to rather heavy handed explain to Markus he had been informed about every detail when Markus tries blackmail.

Soon after John will have business trip fling with Annie, what Sally cheerfully supports and Kathy reluctantly approve, as she herself have successfully seduced Peter, but doesn't consider that serious. John approves Peter, and even suggests he might be the guy for Sally's dream MFM. With that in mind, Kathy introduce Peter to her true status of a sidewife in Johnny's household. Peter is mildly shocked, but catch the hint Sally might be game, and he's interested.

Sally effectively steals Peter. Kathy in the meantime is falling in love with John for real, and that's mutual. On what Sally is mildly jealous, but she have boy-toy Peter, and not going anywhere from Johnny's bed either, as Johnny keeps claiming he love them both. That's about as good non-ending as any, although Annie might be coming for a weekend, meet Peter in a no-clothing party and run away with him. Or some such.

 

[Snowbunnie12]

We prefer the have to tell about it, usually leads to foreplay and more sex for him

 

[Hypoxia]

As I mention in What Is Cheating? it's all about the partners' agreements. Fucking beyond the contract is cheating. Agree to fuck around, and it isn't cheating. Cheating may be expected in some cultures. Do any Mediterraneans *really* expect fidelity?

Say we have a vanilla USA suburban marriage, standard vows, yada yada. Some time later, one says they want to fuck others. You're the spouse. Are you aroused? Will watching your partner fuck somebody excite or antagonize you?

Let the LW trolls decide, hey?

 

[CuteSlaveLisa]

"W. J. If I told you once, I told you a thousand times." His exasperated wife said. "I know you. I know you have been, and I know you will be, out there sniffin.' Looking for 'strange.' What I am asking you to do, what I am begging you to do, is to keep it off the cover of the 'Enquirer' this time, you vegan horndog."

Love and Kisses

Lisa Ann