Emmaleigh6692
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Hello!
My name is Emily and I'm 22(23 in just a few days). My husband, Daniel, and I have had an open-ish relationship for about 2 years now. I say ish because between our location(fairly conservative area overall) and just general life stuff we haven't actually had a lot of experience with other people. We had a year long FWB relationship that unfortunately ended badly(he decided to be mono with someone else with no warning), but as a result we started to focus more on figuring out exactly what we wanted. After a long discussion we realized that one of the main things that went wrong with our FWB is that I developed feelings for him and for several different reasons didn't feel like I could talk about them.
This led to us realizing that I can't really separate sex and emotion and that our options were to either close our relationship, which I was willing to do if that's what he wanted, or allow for the possibility of me having multiple romantic relationships. As of right now, Daniel doesn't desire or really have time to pursue other relationships for himself, but there's a possibility that could change in the future. For now, our focus is on finding someone that would be a positive addition to our current relationship.
And I know that many people who read that last sentence will probably cringe but I don't mean that in the usual, somewhat arrogant sense that a lot of people do. I don't expect to find someone to fall in love or lust with both of us. Daniel is straight and doesn't really have desire to change that. All we want is to find a second partner for myself who can at least be friendly with Daniel. Because of his job, our time together is already short(although we hope in the near future that he will have more time) so it's important we find someone who is okay with sharing and spending time as a triad. That doesn't mean I'll never have 1 on 1 time with my new partner but between logistics and comfort levels I don't have the ability to maintain two completely separate relationships.
I appreciate anyone who takes the time to read the novel I just wrote. This is all really new to me and as a writer, I tend to write to work through my feelings which is one of my main reasons for joining this site. And I know this could possibly come off as being a personal ad, but that's really not my intention.
My name is Emily and I'm 22(23 in just a few days). My husband, Daniel, and I have had an open-ish relationship for about 2 years now. I say ish because between our location(fairly conservative area overall) and just general life stuff we haven't actually had a lot of experience with other people. We had a year long FWB relationship that unfortunately ended badly(he decided to be mono with someone else with no warning), but as a result we started to focus more on figuring out exactly what we wanted. After a long discussion we realized that one of the main things that went wrong with our FWB is that I developed feelings for him and for several different reasons didn't feel like I could talk about them.
This led to us realizing that I can't really separate sex and emotion and that our options were to either close our relationship, which I was willing to do if that's what he wanted, or allow for the possibility of me having multiple romantic relationships. As of right now, Daniel doesn't desire or really have time to pursue other relationships for himself, but there's a possibility that could change in the future. For now, our focus is on finding someone that would be a positive addition to our current relationship.
And I know that many people who read that last sentence will probably cringe but I don't mean that in the usual, somewhat arrogant sense that a lot of people do. I don't expect to find someone to fall in love or lust with both of us. Daniel is straight and doesn't really have desire to change that. All we want is to find a second partner for myself who can at least be friendly with Daniel. Because of his job, our time together is already short(although we hope in the near future that he will have more time) so it's important we find someone who is okay with sharing and spending time as a triad. That doesn't mean I'll never have 1 on 1 time with my new partner but between logistics and comfort levels I don't have the ability to maintain two completely separate relationships.
I appreciate anyone who takes the time to read the novel I just wrote. This is all really new to me and as a writer, I tend to write to work through my feelings which is one of my main reasons for joining this site. And I know this could possibly come off as being a personal ad, but that's really not my intention.
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