Swinging Gone Bad

So I met my wife on a swingers site. She was a single involved long-term with couples she knew for a long time. She also hooked up with single men. The thing is that when we became a couple these couples friends of hers expected me or us to play with them before they would be friends with me. I told her no, I'm not trading sex for friendship. So she's upset because she can't deliver the fresh meat they want and I'm upset that I'm expected to bow down to the wishes of this circle of friends that to me looks more poly than swing anyway. I mean, they do everything together and call each other to come over and fuck their husband's when they don't want to. I have nothing against poly but what I don't like is when swingers cross the line into intimacy and then act like it's just swinging. Although I understand that most people like to feel some rapport with their play partners, swinging has been successful because of practices that keep intimacy out of it.

So now we have moved away from that so called community. She admits that she was trading sex for friendship and that the situation was more poly than swing but she still feels the pull from them via social media. So now we're done with extracurricular sex because she can't have it all her way. I've tried to propose compromises to her but she says that's the same as taking one for the team. My response is that lovers often do favors for each other because they want happiness for the other. But that's not good enough for her.

I expect her to leave me over it sooner or later. I think her "friends" are more important to her than our relationship. I guess she thought I would come around.

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Anonymous

by Anonymous on Jun 26, 2021 at 3:43 PM

You are a different person and it's better that you leave her.
Be happy with one who will be truly yours alone and will look after you when you need help.

These kind of relationships offer variety but that spice is too toxic to make us happy.
Monogamy is still the best. Did we have many mothers to suckle us? One was enough for our sustenance as well as happiness.

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Anonymous

by Anonymous on Jun 26, 2021 at 4:38 PM

I don't see a problem with swinging per se as just recreational sex you can both enjoy but that's up to you and your wife.
One thing I will say as a guy who did couples therapy and awareness seminars with my wife for a few years: NEVER expect that your partner will "come around" or "change for the better".
You have to love them as they are, and yes, lovers should be willing to please one another.
But thinking that they'll change as time goes on is a very foolish assumption!

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