It seems as though there has been a lot of chatter in the Loving Wives comments section recently regarding the rarity of swinging and open marriages, and the doomed outcomes of those arrangements. The majority opinion of those who have commented seems to be that open marriages and swinging are not very common, and that couples who engage in such "alternative...
July 20 was my thirty-ninth wedding anniversary, why yes, thank you very much it is quite an achievement. People have been asking me the secret of having a marriage that has lasted this long in fact so often I have been pondering an answer. I read a blog in Yahoo News the other day titled 'In Love? It's Not Enough to Keep a Marriage.' This piece is loaded wi...
Author's note: This essay has been edited and expanded slightly since its initial posting. "When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else." --David Pryce-Jones --- The Total Moron's Guide to SAME-SEX MARRIAGE In the years before and after the start of the Third Millennium, same-sex marriage has become a hot issue around the civili...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: There is no sex in this story. This is an attempt to examine some of the underlying causes of an affair and the emotions that might occur. I also wanted to explore the difficulties that might be encountered by a couple that try to save a marriage after an affair. Dear Phil, By the time you read this, I'll be gone. I find that I cannot go on...
Prelude to The Perfectly Imperfect Marriage: Until Death Do We Part or Divorce. A descriptive definition that contradicts itself, what is perfectly imperfect? We're all perfectly imperfect in one way or another, with some more and some less to some degree than others. No one and nothing is perfect. That's life and that's the problem with being human. We al...
Chapter 4: Polysexuality and Marriage A happy marriage is a wonderful thing. Being happily married is the best way to be. I've been very happily married for more than two decades, I've never been divorced, and I believe monogamy is the best choice for me. Many people have of course been less fortunate. Despite my belief in the goodness of a happy marriage...
Hi, the name's Gough... Wank Gough! Not as in 'van go', which does sound a bit wanky come to think of it, but as in 'wank off'. I like to think it has resonances of wanking as an art form like how my name-sake Vinny's painting 'Starry night' immortalises my purple nozzled yoghurt spinner cumming like a fountain! What I'm trying to get across is the majest...
Chapter 01 - Open It Up? It was Sunday evening, Mark and Sandy Arnolds were sitting in their living room reading. Mark could tell from Sandy's fidgety behavior that something was amiss. After twenty-six years of marriage he knew her pretty well. Looking over the top of his book, he asked, "What's bothering you, sweetheart?" Sandy marked her page and clos...
This is my first attempt at writing...please be kind. ####### "Mr. Watkins...Chas. I don't believe this is really what you want to do." I raised my eyebrows. "And why is that, Doc?" "Well, I know that it is natural to want to seek revenge, but I also know that it is a dangerous response that I guarantee will backfire on you." I slowly turned my head to...
The following is a plan for a neoPagan wedding celebration. It is based upon the one I wrote for me and my wife when her exhusband drug his heels enough that their divorce was obviously not going to be final by the time that we'd scheduled the wedding. So, we had a celebration *of* our marriage as opposed to the marriage itself. I figured he'd screwed up his...