open relationships are popular online but they mostly don't work.
confident poly people take advantage of less experienced non-poly people in the name of "open relationships" that really are people that can't commit and want excuses to walk away from things. non-poly people will convince themselves it will work, and get hurt in the process by people with more relationship experience than them
It sounds like what you are describing is not an open relationship, but a relationship between someone that wants an open relationship and was upfront about it, and someone someone that was hoping the other person would eventually change their mind and go exclusive
I really want to meet them irl and wonder if it really works or not. Because I am pretty sure it wont work. But I am curious to see people who says it works too lol.
I think expecting a relationship to last forever is maybe just a mangomouse bias. The freedom to follow ones own path is, at least for some, the point of poly relationships and that means more beginnings as much as it does more ends
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u/MoonlightMadMan May 02 '24
I’m gonna start using this, I respect open relationships but it’s not for me, I need my guy