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Truthislife13 t1_ja2jizi wrote

If you really want to meet swingers, you can meet them online easily enough, and they will happily tell you where they have their events.

We had friends who were exploring it some years ago as a way to “enhance” their marriage. They are now divorced, and both remarried. YMMV.

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ILikeCrabbyRobots t1_ja2pj6v wrote

Same, we have friends that were in an enlightened "open marriage" and are now bitterly divorced.

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ZacPetkanas t1_ja2zzqc wrote

> > > We had friends who were exploring it some years ago as a way to “enhance” their marriage. They are now divorced, and both remarried. YMMV.

I can't imagine anyone pursuing that lifestyle and honestly believing it's going to work. The success rate must be sub 10%

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Crunk_NH t1_ja4jh0d wrote

Definitely not true. I know of many happily married people in the lifestyle. It really depends on how solid your relationship was to begin with, and how much communication and trust you have with your partner. Some people see it as a bandaid to fix what is already broken—which just delays the inevitable. However, if you have a strong relationship to begin with, and can love multiple people, or just want to screw around with multiple people, it can be an amazing and wonderful thing.

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capistor t1_ja3bafb wrote

Families are the smallest unit of a healthy community, and John Lennon was killed for intending to come out about the deep state orchestrating the hippie revolution and weakening of traditional families. He was a focal point of that, felt bad, got whacked.

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philm162 t1_ja3jj67 wrote

Well, aren’t we just a little ray of sunshine.

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No_Suggestion_8234 t1_ja341cb wrote

I don't actually want to meet them, I just want to hear the genesis of this story

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Truthislife13 t1_ja3bjq1 wrote

I heard that there’s a very active group that has a monthly party in the New Boston area (or at least they used to), and if I recall correctly, someone was trying to establish something similar in the Merrimack area).

From the little I saw, it seems that they have a very distinctive subculture, complete with their own social norms. It was interesting to get a glimpse of their world, but it wasn’t something we were interested in.

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Cullen7777 t1_ja5imfa wrote

I had the esteemed pleasure of working with one of the the hosts. Maybe he’s a nice guy, but I didn’t respect him.

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