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Blog Posts
"Failed" relationships.
Posted by GoddessMaria on December 16, 2008 at 6:30pm
Meeting people
Posted by emote_control on November 27, 2008 at 3:42pm — 2 Comments
My interview in the National Post
Posted by Samantha Fraser on September 20, 2008 at 1:59am
Open and Shut
Posted by emote_control on September 12, 2008 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments
Blog Posts from NotYourMothersPlayground.com
Realization: My own practical demons
Since writing the post ‘Realizations: I Just Wanna’ Have Fun’ I’ve realized something. Where Steph has often cited cost and practicality for reasons that we don’t try new things, events, places, etc. … I’ve always – in my own mind – cited the need for sleep as a reason not to fuck. And as much as [...]
Stuck in Christmas purgatory
On Sunday we made plans to go to the Santa Claus Parade with friends for something to do. Now normally I’m anti parade. I hate that it happens so early – November 15th? – but it makes sense as it’s cold in December and it’s a kick off to the gift buying season. (Another thing [...]
I’m all for spontaneity …
… but sometimes I think it’s a good idea to schedule things in your life that you wouldn’t normally. Like fights and sex. After an exhausting, emotional yesterday there was no way I was opening my legs. I wasn’t interested but I knew I would be Saturday morning. There’s something about lazing around on a Saturday [...]
Realizations – I just wanna’ have fun
I have a personal rule that I try to follow as much as possible. I don’t like to blog when I’m angry or emotional. I know I’ve done it in the past, but I highly prefer not because then I hit you folks with emotional diarrhea and I embarrass myself on the off chance that [...]
Working on a change
I’m working on changing this site a teensy bit. While during my first 3 years of non-monogamy I was discovering and learning new lessons very often, that phase has slowed down a bit and now we are just living our lives. So in order to be able to share thoughts on things that aren’t always related [...]
Where in the world?
I’ve definitely been MIA lately and wanted to lend some explanations for that. First of all, work was crazy for the past month or two leading up to our big conference (that went well, thank you very much – despite quite a few fires we had to put out.) So work has occupied my brain space [...]
Over-promise, Under-deliver
Wait, isn’t that backwards? Sometimes though it seems perfectly normal in my household. Allow me to explain. This past Monday Steph had a first night with a gal he met on okCupid. He hadn’t been on a first date in, hmm … a really long time; not since he met Betty I think. Anyway, we had [...]
Every Cowboy Sings a Sad Sad Song (Or lessons learned from group sex, while out of the room. And town)
I know that post about Kitty was all sunshine and roses but this one’s going to be a reminder that every rose has its thorn. Even though Steph and I have been doing this open marriage shtick for over 3 years now, we still have things to learn, like the following story will share. While I [...]
Love, pleasure, duty: Why women have sex
(CNN) — What makes a woman want to have sex? Is it physical attraction? Love? Loneliness? Jealousy? Boredom? Painful menstrual cramps? Many women interviewed were having sex purely because they wanted the experience. It turns out that woman have sex for all of these reasons and more, and that their choices are not arbitrary; there may be [...]
Kitty Knievel and I
If you haven’t already gathered from my many other posts, I find there are definitely a lot of benefits to being in an open relationship. One of them is sometimes being lucky enough to sleep with friends and then actually continue being friends with little to minimal weirdness between you. I wrote a post about [...]
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