Wife POV: My Everyday Confidence Grew after Opening Up Sexually

We’re sharing an excellent overview article by Brenna at Front Porch Swingers. Here, she details how friendships, professional relationships, and sexual satisfaction (of course) have been positively impacted by opening up her marriage.

Her big takeaways from her own experiences fall under three big headers;

  • Lifestyle Ladies Tend to Treat Other Females DifferentlyWomen in free and open lifestyle relationships are very often kinder, more complimentary and supportive of other women.
  • Lifestyle Ladies Tell Others What They Want—Women who play around with others gain confidence in the bedroom, which leads to confidence in the workplace and everywhere else!
  • Lifestyle Ladies Can Speak Honestly with Others About Sex—Women who are free to openly share ideas with their female friends have a leg up on gaining satisfaction and confidence.

Between the main headers you’ll find some great thoughts and experiences that might make you smile. And it’s a short read—it’s worth your time!

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Common Sense Advice about Opening Up

Self Magazine recently published an overview of factors that weigh into whether a couple might benefit from an open relationship (and three factors that would make it a bad idea).

It’s a very level-headed discussion. Hopefully it’s a good indication of how society is opening up to common sense in a very important area. So many problems can be avoided if we’re honest with ourselves about who we are as individuals!

I’m Interested in Being a Slut…But Where Do I Start?

This might sound like a ridiculous question to some people, but the truth is, many (or most) of us have been socially conditioned (brainwashed?) to fear our sexual potential. We’re always on the lookout for tips and hints for the woman or man who needs to learn some aspects of responsible sexual liberation.

In this 3-part video series, Tatiana Dellepiane offers insights into “S.L.U.T. Training.” No, this isn’t the stuff you see on captions and hardcore porn, but it is about getting your confidence and energy in line with the life you want to live. Maybe it’s not for everyone, but it’s worth checking out if you think it might even be a little intereting!

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Newer Subreddit of Interest

Since the transition from Tumblr, the blog has been rather inactive. In the meantime, plenty of great new resources and discussion outlets have sprung up.

One of these is a one-year old subreddit, r/cuckoldpsychology. It already has over 13,000 members. Awesome!

Unlike most hotwife/cuckold sites, the discussion stays on the kinds of things people will want to know about as they explore changing their established relationship. In other words, it’s not a lot of captions and erotica. Below is a little sample of a recent post.

It’s great to see people talking. Good luck!

Just discovered your blog and really appreciate for helpful information on hotwife lifestyle. So there a few questions I would like to ask regarding your HW lifestyle. 1. You mention you are a romantic hotwife. Can you elaborate more on the meaning of it? What make the term different from regular hotwife? 2. Another question I like to ask is that how many time did you meet your lover a month? How long did you keep contact with your lover until u decided to break off to prevent feeling develop?

oursexyexploration:

Thank you for your kind words about our blog.  I do try my best to present both sides of things as I have seen them personally throughout my own journey as a Hotwife.  I think anyone going into something this serious should know all that is good and all that is not so good – the potentials for excitement and erotic connection as well as the potentials for issues and problems.  

To answer the first part of your question, D and I have a pretty traditional “Hotwife Relationship”.  He is not a Cuckold, our relationship is not “female led”, this is more his fantasy than it is my own, etc.  The way I choose to participate in the Hotwife lifestyle, or rather to make it work for me is what you touched upon with the idea of the “romantic Hotwife”, a term that I came up with for myself, but have found that many Hotwives also share an affinity for.  

Traditionally, I would say that the majority of Hotwife relationships employ what is known as a “Bull”, an experienced male who understands the situation and lifestyle, knows his role and is there to give the woman the best “sex” that he can give to her and then bow out of the door gracefully until he is called upon again…or not.  That’s typically where it stops.  Women who prefer this type of situation will typically meet a bull once or twice, will meet them specifically for sex without something like dinner and conversation, and they are there for the physical almost 100%.     

Where the “Romantic Hotwife” differs is that she typically requires that “romance” or “chemistry” with her lover – something that relates them on a level beyond sex.  For instance, I can’t get turned on enough to even have sex unless I feel as though the person who I am sleeping with cares about me on some level beyond the physical.  That means someone who is willing to take the time to have some good conversation, learn a little bit about me, doesn’t lead with the sexual (like, no introduction messages with dick pics and “I want to fuck you so hard”) – the opposite of that just doesn’t turn me on AT ALL.  So, in my case, I need a guy who is willing to put in the time to be kind to me, show me that he’s interested in more than just using me as a sex toy, is willing and wants to romance and seduce me a little bit, etc.  This also leads to more “long term” lovers instead of a lot of shorter term hook-ups.  Once I feel comfortable with one guy, I would rather stick to that than go looking for something else. 

A little background on me – before I got married the first time I had only had 4 boyfriends in my life.  Even with D, before becoming a Hotwife, I had only slept with I believe 4 men.  I was always the girl who was taught to “wait” until she knew that a guy cared about her before having sex, and I guess that just shaped who I am and it’s something that I’m comfortable with.  I’ve never had a one night stand, never gotten drunk at a party and slept with a guy, and I guess you could say I’m pretty conservative in that regard, so when the Hotwife idea came up, I had to figure out a way I could still feel good about holding on to some of my own feelings and notions while still making it work for D – thus the “romantic Hotwife”. 

Some Hotwife couples prefer the “Bull” encounters, because they do tend to be less dangerous to the relationship – no intimacy is built in most cases, it’s just sex and everyone knows their part in that.  While D is fully aware of all of my boyfriends, sees all of our conversations, and in many cases speaks with them, he understands that I can’t get things “working down there” without some aspect of romance, care or seduction.  Neither way is right or wrong, they are just different and mostly depend upon the woman’s preference and what she is comfortable with.  

It also depends on the husband, as well…  D actually enjoys this arrangement because there IS a little more danger and jealousy in it.  I’m not just reporting back to him about an hour of sex as soon as a guy walked in the door, I’m telling him about an actual date that was romantic and nice.  Some husbands, though, prefer for their wives to not keep contact with the same man for too long – understandably – and in those cases, it’s really a negotiation between husband and wife about what the wife is able to “handle” and what the husband is able to “handle” and they usually meet somewhere in the middle.  

When I find a lover, I typically see them for one to two months, sometimes more.  Within that time, there can be meetings once or twice a week to only meeting once or twice a month – it all depends on our schedules and how things work out.  With my current lover, we see each other, on average, ever couple of weeks.  A date typically consists of dinner, maybe a trip to the local hot springs (did that last week), or just coming over to listen to music and have some good conversation before jumping into bed.  He’s been really great about that and he enjoys that himself – he’s also not one to get as much out of things without some kind of emotional investment.  

When I choose to cut things off is always different, but the thing that remains the same is that it’s pretty evident when it has to happen.  Either the person is developing feelings, is becoming more demanding of my time, in one instance, D started to not like the guy and so I broke it off, etc.  It’s never an easy thing to do, especially when you have come to know someone a little bit. I’ve never developed feelings for a lover beyond the “situation” or caring for them as a friend, but I have had lovers develop feelings for me, and it is a difficult situation.  I would say that in most cases a couple of months seeing someone once a week or once every couple of weeks is probably a good number to stick with in terms of overall length of relationship, though some can last much longer if everyone understands the situation and is comfortable with it.  

In all of the talking I have done with other Hotwives, I would say that slightly more than half of them prefer things the “romantic” way.  That’s because women are typically turned on first in their brains and second in their bodies.  A lot of women tend to feel more “used” or “degraded” when they just meet a stranger for a random hook-up and then move on to another stranger.  I have had a TON of messages by women asking how I manage to do this without feeling “used” or how I get turned on by other men when really the person I’m most turned on by is my partner – the answer is more intimacy in a lover.  Some women, though, enjoy a fully sexual situation where they find a guy who is well built and well hung and they can just meet up for that raw sexual contact.  It all depends on the couple, and especially on the woman.  

Hope that helped to clear some things up for you….

– S    

Creating a #romantic hotwife tag in response to this great explanation!

Pretty new hotwifing podcast: Holly’s Hotwife Life.

This is an introductory episode, which touches lightly on:

  • What they’re like as a couple
  • What she’s like as a person
  • How the fantasy came up in conversation
  • False starts
  • The first experience (it gets pretty sexy right at this point!)
  • How things have been going since then

Highly recommended for people who are more curious about their own fantasies!

Check it out, and support her great endeavor to provide public information on this kink! Rate the podcast, and drop her a line with questions and comments. Note: we’re not affiliated with this podcast at all—we just think it’s great that she’s doing this public service! 😁

What Open Marriage Taught Me About Feminism

In this essay, a husband shares his six-month struggle to process his wife’s request for an open marriage, and how two years down the road it’s been beneficial for their communication, love, and affection.

Here are some amazing excerpts from the essay:

For my wife, the choice between honoring our vows and fulfilling her desires was a false choice, another trap. She knew how deep our love was, and knew that her wanting a variety of sexual experiences as we traveled through life together would not diminish or disrupt that love. It took me about six months — many long, intense conversations, and an ocean of red wine — before I knew it, too.

When my wife told me she wanted to open our marriage and take other lovers, she wasn’t rejecting me, she was embracing herself.

That was two years ago, and today we’ve never been happier, more in tune, closer, tighter, stronger. Whatever power I surrendered, I don’t miss. I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone, but I tell everyone it works for us.

It feels very adult, especially because it depends on open, honest communication. We take great pride in all the talking we do. I meet a lot of people who say they’ll never get married because they don’t want to get divorced, and hearing it always makes me sad, because they are cutting themselves off from the possibility of the magic that happens when two people share their lives. People don’t divorce because they can’t stand sharing anymore; they divorce because they feel like they can’t share enough.

This has been the great challenge of my open marriage: to draw strength from vulnerability. Doing so requires supreme self-confidence. You must first really, truly love yourself; it is the foundation upon which all the other love is built.

From everywhere comes the message that what I’m doing is for weaklings, losers, failures, pussies; that if I had money and status, I could keep my wife “in line”; that her self-discovery comes at the expense of my self-esteem. My open marriage has made heavy demands on my ability to silence the voice of doubt in my head, that gnawing feeling of worthlessness. But I find I can meet those demands, and that I am able to build my self-confidence out of nothing more than the basic dignity we all possess.

I’m grateful to my wife for pushing us to take this leap.