So you guys think her behavior while married was normal or acceptable? |
Her husband was okay with it, so sure. No deception going on |
Bingo! Boys, boys, boys when you keep your wife in a sexless marriage no what she's gonna do. Not saying this is why she "opened" their marriage, but look at some of the threads where DWs are being starved. |
| This is my MIL and FIL. Got married too young, had DH and my SIL, MIL was young, pretty and realized she wanted to live her life. They agreed to date around but stay together, but it didn't work. Divorce. FIL remarried 2 years later (because men ALWAYS do), they've been married 20 years now. MIL, while had several different more relationships, is now still unmarried, alone, and a bit depressed. Such a cautionary tale. |
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She didn't do anything wrong during their marriage. Neither did he and he sounds like a great man, with a 2d wife with whom he is more passionately compatible. She was completely truthful with him, and he with her - he didn't know the open marriage would kill him. Now he knows and will never accept that in his marriage, which it seems will endure for life.
If you podunks think an average early 20s woman who worked as a visual artist, with access to a rent stabilized apt in Manhattan is ok with not having any career aspirations or creative outlet outside of 3 back to back kids, you are nuts, desk jockeys with no capacity for more, low libido, envy women who like to f*ck, or all of the above. If this woman dies alone, and it certainly is possible as remarriage for divorcees strongly favors men, as brutal as this is, she is probably not going to regret the divorce. She loves him, I'm sure, but not as a DH. She's over it, it's pretty clear. |
I am under no illusions that my wife could get more sex partners than me if we opened the marriage. She's female and attractive. We talked once about hypothetically opening the marriage, and I made it clear I had to be able to date women, to even the playing field. If all I was allowed to do was search for NSA sex, it's not a fair fight. If I can have girlfriends, game on! |
Awesome! She'll still be having more sex with you, but go for it! |
Neither of us are having much sex now. We are married, so its 1x per week in one position. If I am having sex with my girlfriend 10x per week, who cares if she is having it 20x per week. Win-win! |
Definitely! Especially for her! Woo hoo! |
My guess is the feminization of men. Women say they want sensitive men, but they don't want to sleep with them. They want jerks - science backs it up. Read "Red Queen" and you'll get insights into why women act they way they do. |
I'll pass. |
Assholes (mistaken as "confident") create tension, drama, and energy. That's more sexually interesting and exciting than a stable, polite, sensitive guy like the husband in the article. Unfortunately, assholes are also more likely to be violent and objectify women, so you get a perpetuation of rape culture. Pick your poison, I guess. |
Nope. Both men and women who have secure attachment types seem to be attracted to the "fearful/avoidant" attachment types. It's the age old story- you want what you can't have. Hence why Brad Pitt gave up a good girl like Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie the femme fatale, when he knew she would eventually break his heart. It works on both men and women, and has nothing to do with being "alpha". Unless men also prefer "alpha" women, which kind of throws your whole theory into the garbage. |
I'm a woman and I agree that there are some lame, women-hating men on DCUM. But the wife was a total loser. She totally got off on pushing his buttons. Trying to bang your kid's teacher? That's against the code and she knew that. She wanted her husband to go off. Probably was all too happy to share sordid details of her sexual trysts. She's a loser. A boring young woman who had an early life crisis. It's great that they've divorced and he's moved on. I hope that his new wife is treated well. She certainly didn't have to try very hard to be a better wife. |
You're conflating two issues. Males who display alpha tendencies will get more women. That's a fact. Science backs that up. Most of those men are NOT rapists. Rapists are rapists. Women don't like indecisive weak men. They don't mind a nice guy to talk about things with, but they're not the ones getting laid. All men objectify women. Men are visual creatures and think about sex a lot - unless there is a medical reason or they're gay. Don't be mad because you're not the one they're looking for. |