Mainly, I'm aiming this at people who have partners who were not met on here. Did you get into swinging before you met your partner, or whilst you were with said person ? Are they now part of your lswinging life or do you hide it ?
I can't imagine hiding it, but then again, if you are in a long term relationship and havnt revealed it - how did you go about it ? I cant imagine its very easy to introduce a loved one to this sort of lifestlye. I'm glad I don't have to deal with this at the moment, but I can see a time when I might be with someone who I wouldn't want to hide this from.
Anyway...
Would love to here all you veterans comments, and any non painful anecdotes you may have. Oh, and if this is a relaly obvious or stupid question then please ignore more !
We got into swinging together
we was together got 8 years b4 we started swinging
me and my hubby was together for 15 years before i plucked up the courage to discuss the idea of it ,, been swinging for about 2 years now so still new to it all really but we having fun learning lol xxx
takingitslow..
you may want to look at this thread too:
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/56067.html
I've just been browsing through the forum and I read a few similar questions by others. It's not that I'm after anyone in particular at the moment, or with someone, but I couldn't live a lie by not persuing this or hdiing it from them.
I was once with a couple who seemed pretty unsure if they wanted to go ahead. I thought I would be the nervous one,but thats not how it worked out. The whole evening seemed to be about humiliating the boyfriend and following the girlfriends wishes.
I actually got the feeling though that he had been a swinger for sometime and had been doing it without her knowlegde ( she was about ten years younger). I felt she was trying to humilate him as a form of revenge for what his dishonesty.
They were a pretty strange couple, and I have no idea wether they stayed together, or continued swinging. I do know I don't want to be stuck in the middle of such a situation again !
Thats something, I had not thought of... one half of the couple wanting to go it alone. I had kind of assumed if you told your other half it was all or nothing. I'd never really thought about the woman wanting some time to herself so to speak.
I guess that sounds kind of sexist, but its just niavety. So much to learn still... sigh. A lot on here still confuses me.
Dont mind me Nigel, I'm jsut thinking out loud. Thinking too far into the future and all ! Its inspiring to see so many posiitve stories on here . One thing I have noticed is that a lot of couples seem to find it hard to find bisexual women to join them.
Is this that most bisexual woman are in couples and they dont usually swing alone, or is the fact that not many single bisexual women visit SH so the choice is limited for couples looking for mff ?
Thanks for that naughtynympho, thats another aspect I hadnt thought of. I'd never considered the fact that there may be some attraction of bisexual guys to women who are not partners.I'd always assumed the eroticism came from the fact you were seeing you partner engage in the act.
Wow, I realise I know so LITTLE about this lifestyle. I think the level of trust that must exist must be really high and that you must have to have a strong relationship with a lot of love, but I guess the rewards for both partners must really enrich the relationship ! (if that made sense !)
Steve
I discovered that monogamous relationships weren't for me whilst with a previous partner a long long time ago and we lived in an open relationship for several years. However, I didn't discover the swinging scene proper til after that relationship ended and I explored it as a single person, I met lots of people and discovered clubs. During that time I met Denise (not through swinging) but we shared the same interests as Denise was also a swinger (though didn't use the term) so we explored the scene as a couple. Denise was never too much into clubs so I usually did clubbing with a friend that I did meet via the Net. Now I swing as a single, though I don't very often do 121s and most if not all the swinging I do is in clubs or at parties etc with people I have met from here. SH is now my life. Sad, ain't it :giggle: