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Right... so you're saying that it's OK to have a platonic relationship with your wife / girlfriend? Once you take out the sexual relation a relationship becomes a friendship... I don't understand your point.
I see nothing wrong with a "platonic" relationship with your wife/girlfriend. But I disagree that once you take out the sexual relation it becomes just a friendship as I still think its more than a friendship if you actually have feelings for the person past the sexual ones. But I am talking about a relationship that isn't sexually based tho. Ie a romantic based one. I know its a bit old fashion, but relationships can be based upon such things without it being sexually based, but with sex being part of it.
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A relationship (the one we are talking about here) is first and foremost sexual.
So the sexually based kind, the kind that I was referring to.
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What usually happens in LTR is that after two years the sexual attraction is gone but the friendship remain.. which is cool, but then you start to build up frustrations, you start to express them in idiotic ways (fighting over who left the remote where etc) and then everything goes to shit.
And if the relationship isn't just based upon physical attraction this will be less likely be the case. As there be other ways to ease the sexual tension/frustration there. As at some point the honeymoon phase as I call it ends and the real relationship beings. And if you can't deal with the real relationship part you most probably not for each other. But sexually based relationships tend to not last long anyway because as you said the attraction goes away at some point and thats that.
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That's why couples who are in an open relationship are usually much happier than "normal" couples - check the statistics on that. The reason for this is that if the sexual part is taken care of, people CAN be together for a long long time and live happily ever after.
The thing is not many people can be in such a relationship. I would say most people can't be in such a relationship. The primary reason being jealously as well as most probably always wondering if your partner will leave you for someone else that they are screwing. I mean how many people will leave their partner if they are getting better sex than that from their partner?
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But monogamous LTR are just DOOMED to fail. The system is rigged against any chance of long term success.
How? I am more curious to why you think that, not to say I don't think there are some reason as to why this may be a bit true.