Many wives have never seriously considered sharing their man with another woman or for them to be with another man. Swinging and non-monogamy is usually a foreign idea that can take a good bit of time to understand. If you want to get your wife to swing, you will want to carefully explain to her the advantages of swinging and why you are interested in swinging. Your wife is likely going to have many reservations and worries. That is normal, so be extra understanding even if it tests your patience.
For this installment of our weekly interview series, Love, Actually , about the reality of women's sex lives, we spoke with Vera a pseudonym , a married woman who unexpectedly got into swinging during a tenth-anniversary cruise. I came across a "clothing optional lifestyle takeover cruise. We assumed "lifestyle" meant BDSM. We figured we could still go, even though we didn't plan to participate. It started with talk of me being interested in playing with other women and evolved into "Let's just go for it and enjoy all this cruise has to offer. We really didn't know what to expect when we got there, and were definitely surprised. Some people were completely nude, some just topless, some in tiny outfits, and some fully clothed.
Curious About the Swinging Lifestyle? Five Things You Need to Know
On the hit ABC show "Desperate Housewives," cheating destroys marriages because spouses lie and get caught. But we found couples who say they have found a way to enjoy the company of others without the deception. It's called the "lifestyle," or swinging, an arrangement in which couples have sex with other couples, and there is no secrecy. Brian and Olga Depenbrock got married four years ago. Now they run a business together, and after work they like to go to a club in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Sharing personal information brings people closer together. Verified by Psychology Today. The Swinging Paradigm. I hear this often from people who know of my research with the swinging population, which they consider deviant and suspicious.