LadyPact -> RE: How Do I get my wife to agree???? (8/12/2013 7:32:41 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam Y'all are going to get pissed at me and I don't care. Fair enough. You might not like this one, either. The very reason that I don't buy what 99% of the threads like this one represent is because some of those of us who are poly don't go doing stuff behind our spouse's back for *years* before approaching the subject with the person where it actually matters. Unlike some, I didn't read the OP's profile (I usually don't so I don't carry that over to answering the question) but this is a case where the profile was created in 2004. That seriously leads Me to believe that honesty wasn't this guy's first policy. Truth be told, more often than not, I'm going to side with the person who entered the relationship with another person they thought was vanilla, and had the expectation of a life with a vanilla. That's what they signed up for and it's not unreasonable to expect. That's coming from somebody who met and married vanilla and wouldn't be involved in any of the kinky stuff unless MP was cool with it. That wasn't an instantaneous acceptance thing, either. We spent a lot of time discussing what it would mean for us and it most certainly wasn't done overnight. Could I have been a scumbag about it? Absolutely. I'm a military wife. There are literally years at a time that he's not even in the country. I mention this because I am exceptionally familiar with time periods where there is no sex or even physical forms of affection because he's not present. While different people have different levels of sexual drive, I'm in a great position to know that physical sex just isn't the most important thing going. That's akin to saying that if, God forbid, you couldn't perform sexually anymore due to an illness that your wife ought to get up and leave you because you're not performing the duties of a husband. Hey, I'm even agreeing with you that situations like the one of your past history exist. However, the other side is present, too, where the truth is that the husband (or the wife) just honestly don't put as much into the relationship as they did when they were courting. Once folks are 'secure' that the relationship is solid, some folks do let that slide. They give up on concepts like date night or ensuring the spouse knows that they are special to the other person in their life. Maybe in some of those cases, if they spent the same amount of time as they do chasing tail on the side or surfing porn and put that effort into their marriage, they might find some return on that investment.
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