PapaRomantic
Writing away...
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Your honesty in answering these questions is amazing! Thank you for sharing with us - I'm glad this works well for you!Do I struggle to stay within our rules? Let me come back to that one ... I should answer the second one first.
Is it strictly sex with boyfriends? No. There's a connection. It's impossible (for me) to be that intimate and not have a connection. Without it ... the sex would not be as good. I can't compartmentalize that completely.
Do those relationships have ALL the same emotions ... found in traditional bf/gf relationships? No. As I said, there's a connection but I wouldn't say its the same ... I do have a husband and I truly do love him. None of my bfs have remotely gripped my heart like him.
Now, do I struggle to say within our rules? Sometimes. Sex can be overwhelming for me and the wrong guy can tempt me. The concept of "rules are meant to be broken" is stupid to me. I'm sure that people don't really mean it when they say that and it's probably mostly tongue in cheek. But breaking rules that are there to protect the marriage ... even little ones ... would be devastating, at least, to us. Maybe, if I hadn't done what I did ... rules could be blurred a little. But not with our past. So I have been tempted ... but I'm more grounded now. Rules help that. As well as the remembrance of how painful it was for both of us when I broke them.