Re: Just starting Help !!!!!!
2005-06-01 05:26:51
Response to curious.
What you are feeling seems quite normal - for those who choose NOT to engage in these kind of relationships, which is most of the world when you think about it. We are, by the nature of our decisions to enter into relationships, territorial and somewhat possessive. Plus monogamous relationships are what our society has trained us for since birth. So perhaps the question should be - why wouldn't you have these feelings.
BUT, if you have these concerns, you are treading in dangerous territory. Perhaps an example is the best explanation. We recently went to a local swing club and sat with a new couple. After some discussion we learned that she was there to fulfill his (and 100 Million other men's) fantasy of him watching her with another woman. She said that while she might be interested in a fuller swap, "he would never agree to that and there'd be hell to pay". At the time she was saying that, her partner was across the table with his hands on my partner's private parts telling her how much he'd like to do a full swap. It wasn't much longer before she stormed out in anger.
The moral is you can't do this kind of activity without complete honesty and have your relationship survive. While it's easy for some of us to say that having our partner touch or be touched (intimately) by another person is just fine, it takes watching it actually happening to know for sure. And when that happens, if the feelings don't work, there has to be a comfortable way for you both to make it stop. Finally, take it from a willing male - while we might say we're happy to "just watch", it is the VERY rare male who doesn't want to get tangled up in that. The sight of a different woman all hot and bothered with my partner drives me crazy - and I'd put big money that I'm not alone. Good luck!