… You’re too dumb to realize you made a mistake.
I’ve had a problem lately with “open” relationships. I know it’s not my place to say what people can and cannot do, etc. (spare me the fucking lecture), and by no means am I making a purely moral judgment. I think open relationships are stupid, and I’m going to explain briefly why and then go into more detail.
When you think of a relationship, what comes to mind? Love I guess, trust, dependability, and uh, commitment???
So the very phrase “open relationship” is a subtle oxymoron, because if you’re not going to be open about anything and everything (because you satisfy that desire by sharing intimacy with somebody else), then your relationship is less open than any normal one. Two people, I’m assuming, decide that they like each other enough to be significant others, but then decide that they don’t want to be held in an exclusive bond with each other because they want to do other things with other people (”things” meaning FUCKING usually). This is the part where I can honestly say I don’t understand open relationships enough. What conduct is considered appropriate? I’m assuming, again, that in most open relationships sex is okay. Now I’m wondering why you would agree to share an intimate relationship with someone when they were sharing intimacy with someone else. For some people, very, very mature people, I guess it might be possible to share that type of intimacy with more than one person, but being realistic, who the fuck is honestly that mature? The only people I’ve heard of being in an open relationship are barely mature enough to be in a regular fucking relationship, much less find a way to satisfy their significant other’s thirst for intimacy and affection while doing other people.
Upon listening to a Savage Lovecast, Dan got a call from some stupid whore who was having problems with her husband. They have been “happily”, *ahem* [superquotes]HAPPILY[/superquotes] together for more than 8 years, and have always “considered” themselves to be in an open relationship. Now hold the fuck on. You took a vow to be together forever in the biggest, most significant relationship two people can have with each other, but wanted the opportunity to… do things with other people? Other things that most people only do with their spouse? Now, here’s where the problems start to begin.
She began to go on about how her husband never really took advantage of the opportunity to do other people until recently when he started going over to their neighbor’s house, getting shithoused, fooling around with her, then forgetting to come home. The wife said she had one rule, and that was that he had to come home, but unfortunately he would always pass out and “forget”. Her problem is that she keeps getting upset, and she feels guilty because since she’s in an open relationship she can’t get angry with her husband for doing other people. It’s quite obvious what’s really making her angry, she’s jealous, and she called Dan Savage because she can’t talk to her friend or really anybody about this problem because she thinks it’s her own fault for being jealous and that she has no right to confront her own stupid drunk husband about it.
Oh wait, what’s that noise? Jesus Christ it’s making my ears bleed. Oh… it’s my dumbfuckometer and it’s going off like crazy.
Now here you are in a small predicament, the same that most people find themselves in sooner or later in an open relationship. They forget that they have feelings. Any normal human fucking being who legitimately loved someone romantically would have feelings of jealousy if their significant other, or in this case FUCKING HUSBAND started HAVING SEX WITH SOMEONE ELSE. Now, instead of being able to tell her husband “look I’m not happy with you fooling around with our neighbor, stop,” she has to sit back and watch everything happen, too dumb to realize the mistake she made.
Everyone makes the same mistake sooner or later, and that’s when they remember some of the things that make up a relationship, like commitment. Open relationships aren’t stupid because they’re wrong, they’re stupid because if you think you’re going to be okay sharing your girlfriend or boyfriend with other people, then you’re either a complete moron or so ignorant you should probably down a liter of 190 proof right now.
It’s almost everyone who makes the same mistake. The fact that the divorce rate for marriages is at about 50% and the fact that open relationships exist is partially due to the fact that people are too stupid to demand what they actually want. Millions of people sacrifice the ability to go out and have sex with other people so they can live in the magical unicorn valley that is a relationship with someone who loves you and nobody else. Because in reality, it’s a lot easier to sacrifice the former than the latter, and if you think you can handle being in an open relationship, then you sure as fuck better realize that you can’t share an intimate bond with whoever you’re in your stupid, pointless paradox of a relationship with.
Take my advice. If you’re in an open relationship you’re almost definitely kidding yourself. Why even bother being in a relationship if you can’t commit to one? If you’re too much of a chicken shit to end it, then that’s fine I guess, you coward. If you can’t bring yourself to end it then you obviously have serious feelings for whoever you’re in an open relationship with, which means you’re either going to wind up sacrificing your feelings to satisfy the other person’s lack of maturity and ability to commit to a relationship, or your own. If you’re on the other end and want to fuck other people so bad, read the beginning of this paragraph again. If all else fails and you’re still in an open relationship by tomorrow, then stop huffing white out.
Jesus Christ almighty God of Vishnu Allah of the Lord on High Ishmael Mohommad people are dumber than bricks.