That "playing boyfriend but sharing that girl"/open marriage stuff comes with a lot of problems when it comes down to it.
A lot of people have problems these days because they try to blur the lines instead of keeping it straight-laced. If she's a ho, keep her in that ho category. If she's going to be wifey, make sure she qualifies for wife status.
Now the problem with these "open" relationships is
1) you pay for what someone else is getting for free
2) she can catch an std and pass it right along to you. it can happen in a normal relationship if the other person cheats, but then again, the probability is higher when you are openly accepting your woman going out to hit them streets.
3) you might get put in the background and get used as a 'sponsor' when she's out there exploring and finds a dude she is really digging. She's going to use you for rent and money, but be over there working him out.
4) you very well may end up taking care of a lot of children that aren't yours.
These things can and do happen in 'monogamous' relationships in which someone cheats, but that's the key... finding someone that actually lives up to their values before you toss that wife jacket on her. The WORST thing you can do is give a ho wife benefits. That's like giviing a 20 hour a week worker full time salary and benefits.
they started off talking real intelligently. When you get married it is unrealistic to think that you wont be tempted, pushed, struggle or have hard or tough times. You will. Most people dont date long enough before marriage to be tempted or experience hard times. They date for a year, maybe 2 or 3 years then get married thinking that have it all figured out.
Its because of morals and values that we idealize staying with one person forever. Realistically there are gonna be nights when you want to put in it her, and shes not gonna want to. And for those times there are gonna be times when she should suck it up, and times when we should just respect that she doesnt want to do it tonight.
For some people that have to have their cake and eat it too they will say fukk her, let her sleep im gonna go get my dikk wet, therefore we both win.
We put sex on a pedestal here in America....We believe in free love yet idealize family values..we love to tease in movies, music and magazines, but a nipple slip on tv sends shockwaves of outrage throughout our country. A sex tape from a nobody will make you famous, a sex tape as a senator will make you infamous...We dont particularly favor teen pregnancy and kids out of wedlock yet Teen Mom is being renewed again.
Relationships are tough enough, you experience the emotional toll of ending a marriage then the law and society has to hit you where it hurts, your wallet.