Poly Anniversaries

[Menage_a_Trois]

Mr. & Mrs. Menage are fastly approaching their 12th wedding anniversary in June and we have made the decision to make that "our" anniversary for the three of us since we really don't have a way of pinning down a specific anniversary date for our triad. In thinking about the pending anniversary and a way to celebrate this year it got me to wondering about everyone else and their anniversaries for their poly relationships.

1) How long have your poly relationships been together?

2) Did you have a specific event that prompted an actually anniversary date or did you just decide on one like us?

3) How will you or have you celebrated your anniversaries?

Look forward to hearing from everyone in the poly community here.............

The Other Mrs. Menage

[Twolovers01]

WE are happily married and have been with the same couple whom we are going to "marry" soon, for almost a year. We hope that it lasts for a very long time. We are glad to hear that there is a word for us and that there is a lot of other couples out there like us.

We remember when we met the first time. well the women do!!! lol
We are coming up on our first anniversary, and I believe we are gonna get matching tattoo's!!!

Good luck to everyone in finding what they are looking for!!!

[avid]

Originally Posted by Menage_a_Trois

In thinking about the pending anniversary and a way to celebrate this year it got me to wondering about everyone else and their anniversaries for their poly relationships.

1) How long have your poly relationships been together?

I've been married to my husband for 11 years, and with my partner for a little over a year and a half.

2) Did you have a specific event that prompted an actually anniversary date or did you just decide on one like us?

Because we're in a Vee relationship, and not an actual triad, we consider (when we actually take the time to think about it) that we have two anniversaries. One with my husband, one with my partner. For my partner, I kinda consider our anniversary as the day of our first date. We're not too hung up on this kind of occasion.

3) How will you or have you celebrated your anniversaries?

Sometimes we go out to dinner or something, but not a big deal for any of us. My husband is the romantic in the relationship, so he might get a card or something.

My personal belief is just that we should be loving and respectful of each other all the time. No specific celebration needed.

[Pioneer Swinger]

Quoting via copying and pasting…

“1) How long have your poly relationships been together?”

It will be 30 years in September.

2) Did you have a specific event that prompted an actually anniversary date or did you just decide on one like us?

Al (my partner) and I celebrate on September 15th, the day we first made love together.

3) How will you or have you celebrated your anniversaries?

Al and I always get away at that time for anywhere from a long weekend to three weeks. We’ve done things like go to the Poconos for a “second honeymoon” (We weren’t welcome back then as I am white and Al is black.), to go on a cruise or go to one or more of the Caribbean islands. Sometimes, we’ve gone camping into the Appalachian back country and gone nude for days and weeks, having “natural” sex several times a day!

In preparing for our celebrations, one thing I always do is go off the Pill when my cycle before the anniversary ends. I do this because Al and I did not use birth control when we started having sex. I also bring the bras and panties that I only wear when I’m with Al. Rick has never seen me in the black bras and panties that Al loves almost as much as the red bras and blue panties, which he also loves. (He says that I’m his “All-American Girl” when I dress that way!) I also wear the most revealing clothing and swimwear that my almost 48-year-old figure allows. One anniversary, I was almost five months pregnant with Rick’s and my third child. Al and I still went on our vacation. Yes, I brought the T-shirts reading “BABY” with an arrow pointing at my expanding tummy and the traffic sign reading “BABY ON BOARD”. Of course everyone thought I was pregnant by Al. And, we did nothing to have the bigots think otherwise.

In terms of sexually celebrating our anniversary, Al and I always make out for at least an hour before we make love for the first time whenever we’re together. I then ask him to enter me. We then go on to re-enact the first time we made love together. After that, almost anything goes! One difference now is that whenever we make love, I always let Al cum somewhere other than my vagina before penetrating me. This is to reduce the possibility of him impregnating me by reducing his sperm count for his later ejaculations. We also indulge in anal intercourse (Which Al introduced me to shortly after we became sexually active. And, I only have with Al… except on very special occasions with my husband.) and Al also does things like shave my pubes, put removable tattoos on my breasts, butt, and mons, paint my breasts with body paint (Once I came back to Rick with daisies painted on my breasts with my nipples as the blossoms!), and has also used a permanent marker on my body (Especially my breasts, tummy, mons, and butt.), although on one occasion the marker was too permanent and until well into the new year I had twin black panthers on my breasts and a neatly handwritten “PROPERTY OF AL H------” with his Social Security Number on my left butt cheek. However, there have been anniversaries where he’s left my body externally unmarked.

This anniversary will be number 30. And, both Al and Rick have been discussing something “permanent”. I don’t know whether I’ll be tattooed, pierced, or maybe both!

One question I wish you’d asked: “Do you have a favorite place to go or thing to do to celebrate your anniversary?” For Al and I, we like to go to Jamaica and “Sandals”. Yes, we stay at the “almost anything goes” part. We stay nude from shortly after arrival until shortly before departure. I come back with an all-over tan and rather sore from all the times Al has taken me!

Another question you didn’t ask, but I wish you had: “Has there been an anniversary that was especially memorable?” In our case, it was many years ago when Al and I went to a Caribbean country where marriages performed there at the time were supposedly not universally recognized in the U.S. unless the license was registered with the courthouse and the U.S. Embassy and a whole lot of rigmarole with witnesses, etc. For this trip, I packed a low-cut white dress, a matched white bra, panty, and garter set, and formal white shoes while Al packed a new charcoal gray suit, white shirt, black tie, and new black shoes with a mirror shine. We refrained from sex our first day there to the point of not even seeing each other naked. The next morning, I stayed in the bathroom while Al got dressed and took a taxi to the courthouse. After he left, I did likewise. Al was waiting for me in the judge’s office along with the judge, his wife, and his secretary. And, the judge “officially” married Al and me. In the eyes of that government, that is. Apparently, we weren’t the first American couple to be wed without the presence of the Court Clerk! Yes, Al and I exchanged rings (I left Rick’s rings at the hotel.) and became “Mr. & Mrs.” for the remainder of the trip. And, were we to return, we probably still would be! That was the memorable and exciting one for us. Because for three weeks we were legally what would’ve been difficult to achieve where we’d first made love: Married. After we got back, the three of us briefly had some additional excitement until my period arrived six weeks late.

I hope all may have the poly joys that Rick, Al, and I have shared these years… -Angie (Wife of Rick, Lover of Al)

[gatorvol64]

Originally Posted by Menage_a_Trois

1) How long have your poly relationships been together?

2) Did you have a specific event that prompted an actually anniversary date or did you just decide on one like us?

3) How will you or have you celebrated your anniversaries?

We met Tech and Kitten in January of 2007, so that makes it a little over a year that we've been together.

We chose the day we all four got matching rings as our anniversary. That was 7 days before Gator's and my wedding anniversary.

We haven't really decided on how we will celebrate.

Vol

[Twolovers01]

We cumming up on our 2nd anniversary with our oso's. I dont know what we are going to do, but I know that we are going to have a long weekend.

[gatorvol64]

That's great! The anniversary I mentioned earlier, the day we all gave each other rings, is the 23rd of this month. We are going to spend the weekend at the beach. Kitten has been wanting to go for a while now.

Vol

[Twolovers01]

Thats cool that all 4 of you got matching rings. After being with our couple for a year, the guys got us girls matching rings. My ring has my partners birthstone and the other womans ring has my husbands birthstone in it. Here it is another year and I am not quite sure want we are going to do.

[paradiseclubcpl]

Our one year anniversary is on August 20th
We met our significant other couple at the swing club, which I run. They newbies to swing, and felt that the swing lifestyle was not for them. As for ourselves, we had become very disillusioned by the over exposure to the swing lifestyle.
On August 20th (R) the male half of our other couple came to me with the problem (L) his wife was having with swinging. They both did not wish to give up the relationship we had with them. After discussing the idea of exclusivity with my wife Kitti, we decided to try Polyamory. We formed our quad as we learned it was called. For us the best decision we ever made. So committed am I; I have a tattoo that is a symbol of infinite love. One of the many poly symbols out there.
We are planning a weekend at the shore to celebrate our first anniversary.

[gatorvol64]

That's great! Your anniversary isn't far off. We just spent a very relaxing (needed by all 4) weekend at a place on the river.

Vol