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Originally Posted by Paul Vincent It's very rare that threesomes and inviting others into the bedroom doesn't destroy relationships and marriages. |
Sorry, but I disagree with that. Sometimes it does clearly, but there are plenty of couples out there who enjoy a perfectly healthy relationship in the lifestyle. I know because I'm in one of them, and lots of couples that we play with are equally happy. It's simply a question of establishing ground rules that everybody can be happy with.
That's not to say that there haven't been ugly moments of jealousy and nastiness.... I've already written about one recently, and I'm about to describe another that I think is relevant to this situation. The first time I saw my g/f take a really huge penis in front of me, I completely freaked out at how she reacted. The guy was easily 10 honest-to-god inches, and we had been talking beforehand about how large he was, and we were both looking forward to the experience.
Unfortunately, all was not well in our relationship at that point in time, as we had been split up for a while and were just patching things up and getting back together. In hindsight, we had no business trying it at that time, but we just didn't know any better because we were new. We met with the other couple and their guy friend for a total of 3 men and 2 women. I was ostensibly to play with the wife while the husband played with my g/f, but it didn't quite work out that way. The wife didn't seem very interested in me, and it really ended up with my g/f and the husband being the stars of the show and everybody else watching them.
I had never seen such reactions from her. He initially bent her over the back of the couch and prepared to take her from behind, and she was begging him not to hurt her and please be careful. That caught me off guard. After some time on the couch, we all moved to the bed, where they continued the show like never before. She was screaming and moaning in a way that I had never heard before, and I was beginning to feel increasingly inadequate. Any man who has ever been in that situation knows exactly the sick feeling I'm talking about.
It eventually got to the point where I got up and went in the other room to sit down because I didn't want to see any more. It was very clear to everybody that I wasn't having a good time, and in a few minutes my g/f came in and asked if I was OK. I said not really and told her why, and then there was a big fight about it in front of everybody. (Liberal alcohol consumption that night didn't help things any.)
The night was over at that point, leaving everybody with a bad experience. I came away from that experience with several lessons, the most important of which is be careful what you wish for. I had always thought it would be hot to see her take a big one, but in reality it made me sick (physically) for weeks because I wasn't ready emotionally to handle it. The second lesson I learned is that if you -as a couple - are going to make it work, you both have to be crystal clear about what you want from the experience and what you expect in terms of ground rules. My suggestion would be open communication about it.
These things are very complicated because they play to such deep-seated emotions and fears that in many cases we don't understand it ourselves, much less explain it to anybody else. But one thing is clear to me:
If you are uncomfortable with the situation, don't be afraid to speak up and say so. If you don't like it, put a stop to it and don't feel obligated to let it keep going on just because your wife wants it. If anybody is uncomfortable, the deal has to be off. Otherwise you will end up divorced.
If your wife really loves you - and it sounds like she does - she should understand your feelings. Mine did, although it took a long time for us to get past this experience and get to a place where we could really both enjoy it together. Now it's just a thing in our past, and we can laugh about it, but if we hadn't really talked about it and tried to understand each other's feelings, it could very well have been the end of our relationship right there.
Talk to her, and if you can't agree on some ground rules, you don't need to be doing it.