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Words, words, words; talk, talk talk. I am beginning to believe that my wife and I get along better if we try not to classify ourselves. But what are we going to do. Sometimes friends and prospective friends want to know. And how do we tell them without writing a book. We fall back onto the well-worn but often-misunderstood two-word descriptions.

 

What do these suggest to you?

 

* swing separately

 

* open marriage

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I am beginning to believe that my wife and I get along better if we try not to classify ourselves.

 

We're thinking more along those lines ourselves. We almost always swing together, but it isn't set in stone as an absolute rule. More as a matter of available leisure time.

 

What do these suggest to you?

 

* swing separately

 

* open marriage

 

Swing Separately: My mind tends to go towards "We play together or separately, and when we swing separately, it is with the knowledge and consent of the other".

Open Marriage: I think in terms of "We each do our own thing, and don't necessarily check in with each other on every activity. We're both cool with this".

 

I realize I'm reading a lot into each of these, and understand that is not necessarily what everyone that participates in these activities may actually do.

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Me and my hubby swing together and separate we have an open marriage and love having our separate dates

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swing separately = you fuck others solo

 

open marriage = you're open to having romantic relationships outside the primary

 

those are just my reads though

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For me, accepting the "open" part is a matter of boundary and the full disclosure part is a matter of honesty and respect.

This means that if my lady or I are in a situation that's just too good to pass up, spontaneous play is pre-approved. It does come with the expectation (I know, expectations are dangerous) of earliest convenience disclosure. So, if it's a heat-of-the-moment thing, go for it and enjoy. But then tell all. If it isn't so spur of the moment, go ahead and agree to it if you want, but since there IS time, disclose and discuss with the partner ahead of time.

 

The part that would make me uncomfortable, if it ever happened, is anything kept secret.

 

Swinging separately, to me, is just a vague term that means we're not always going to be present when the other plays. In my head, the term "swinging" already includes the knowledge and consent of both parties.

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swing separately = you fuck others solo

 

open marriage = you're open to having romantic relationships outside the primary

 

those are just my reads though

 

This is my definition too but to add swinging separately means to me, more of being lent out, say hubby goes to a couple for a mfm threesome and I go alone to help give someone a fmf threesome, although it can mean the above too.

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Words, words, words; talk, talk talk. I am beginning to believe that my wife and I get along better if we try not to classify ourselves. But what are we going to do. Sometimes friends and prospective friends want to know. And how do we tell them without writing a book. We fall back onto the well-worn but often-misunderstood two-word descriptions.

 

What do these suggest to you?

 

* swing separately

 

* open marriage

 

Swing separately to us means we fuck half of the other couple solo with knowledge and consent of your better half.

 

Open marriage to us means we fuck the other wife/hubby without prior knowledge or consent of your better half.

 

Getting right down to it, these phrases are merely semantics in the modern day Lifestyle experiences for couple who swing i.e., have sex with or fuck other partners outside of your primary relationship, wife/hubby/bf/gf. There ought to be no mystery about the phrases since most couples, ourselves included, do have sex with another couple's wife or hubby out of sheer necessity and sexual desires since both do have careers and cannot always swing together. Case in point, we did a f/m/f threesome with our travel agent whose hubby is on a off-shore duty one month out and a month with wife. Then I fucked her separately on many a times while her hubby was away. And, so does wife have sex with other guys with or without my knowledge but with full consent to enjoy sex with a variety of male partners. Question-what do you call this relationship that does not have emotional attachment but is purely of sexual nature that is the two play and have intercourse.

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It depends...if it is the male saying those things without any input or proof (or a physical hall pass to show) from the Ms., then it can mean 'I'm cheating on my wife but I'm telling you I'm not because she knows...but she doesn't'.

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Regardless, both swinging separately and open marriage are consensual arrangements whether or not details/names of actual sexual partners and place of encounter may and may not be known or revealed unless asked for.

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