i’d be fine with the idea of an open relationship (as long as the person didn’t have an romantic connection to the person they were having the sexual relationship with, i think) but i’m not sure that i’d feel comfortable bringing it up in the first place – i’d feel a bit presumptuous, or something. i know there are people who can make it work and i really admire that but what happens when a person gets all of their …

as my partner emily and i near the two-year mark of living together through myriad lockdowns, i can finally say we have found a way to manoeuvre through the tension when we circle back to that old chestnut of love life: sex. with a little help, my ace-fluid partner and i have found a few shiny little relationship devices to get us through our rockier conflicts. that’s when i turned the thing on and broke our angry stalemate with a …

that made me wonder: can a relationship be open for only one person? or is it unfair to hold each other to different standards? sometimes, for example, one partner is asexual, so the other needs to go elsewhere to get as much sex as they want. or sometimes, one person is attracted to more than one gender and wants to explore relationships with people of a different gender than their partner. if one person would go nuts thinking about their …

i need advice on how to be in a relationship with him despite my high sex drive and lots of tips on intimacy and how to adjust to this change please. in general i think it can be very hard on a sexual to have a relationship with someone repulsed by sex, as sexuality is often how sexual people express & experience love and affection (although it may not be their only motivation for sex). however, if someone had told …

this type of nontraditional relationship can involve multiple romantic partners, a married couple, or even an open relationship where each partner is free to have relationships with other people. a triad or other type of polyamorous relationship may also have a primary partner or primary relationship and a secondary partner or secondary relationship. an open triad also forms when the two metamours in a vee triad choose to date each other, turning the vee relationship into a triad that is …