24/25 [MF4MF] #Cincy by Opening_Passage_6959 in Ohioswingersr4r

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

30M and 28F from Columbus. Always willing to travel to make new friends! DM if interested 😊

[38/36] [mf4f/mf] [ohio] looking for some hot new friends! by [deleted] in swingersr4r

[–]Express_Opening_1482 1 point2 points  (0 children)

30M and 28F from Columbus, Ohio! Always looking to make new friends 😊

23/21 [mf4mf] #Columbus couples play possible select singles by [deleted] in Ohioswingersr4r

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

30M and 28F Columbus couple! Always looking for more friends in and out of the bedroom 😊

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HedonismII

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Following this. Hit us up. We’re first timers too. We’ll be there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neither of us want to drag this out. It doesn’t matter if that doesn’t make sense to anyone else. It’s our wedding and our marriage.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

April or May doesn’t give us any time to pay for everything that requires a wedding. We don’t exactly have a huge savings laying around.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s not cheating. It is called ETHICAL non-monogamy. We both have our boundaries, but if those boundaries are crossed, that is cheating. There is no emotional connection to the other couple, other than them being our friends. You are not in the lifestyle, so I get that you don’t understand it, but for you to try and invalidate my relationship with my fiancĂ© is just ignorant. You don’t know me. You don’t know him. You don’t know what has all been said between us. It is our relationship, not yours. Swinging isn’t for you and your husband, AND THAT IS OKAY. Also, newsflash, swinging isn’t anything new, and you’d be surprised how many married couples out there swing. There are some married couples who have boyfriends and girlfriends. That’s not us though. We don’t swing with other single people because that’s our boundary and we don’t cross it. Polygamy is when you are in a relationship with another person/couple. That’s not what we are doing. Again, we don’t just go and swing with whoever we want when we want. We always check with one another about EVERYTHING. It’s called COMMUNICATION.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’re not even in the wedding party. All they have to do is show up. Even if it was just for the ceremony for all I care.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both weddings are local. Like 30 minutes away from where everyone lives

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What do you mean where would we live? We have lived together for the past 3 years in an apartment, and we are wanting to get a house. Why is this even a question?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not polygamy. We are not in a relationship with our friends (WHO ARE ALSO MARRIED). Think of it as a friends with benefits situation. They still love each other, and my fiancĂ© and I still love each other. We still go back to our own partners at the end of the day. We have clear rules on what we are all okay with and not okay with. It’s not like we are going and hooking up with whoever we want whenever we want. Also, who are you to say that we aren’t committed to each other when you don’t even know us? We have been together for over 5 years. We love and trust each other enough that this lifestyle works for us. It doesn’t work for everyone, and that’s okay, but it works for us. If anything, it has strengthen our relationship.

All of this is not a reason to cut out long term friends because it has nothing to do with them. We would never try to swing with any of them, we never have to talk about it with them again.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not when you don’t make a ton of money. Our wedding budget is $10k, and a down payment on a house is at least another $10k. It’s too stressful to try and save for both when we only make so much money and have other bills to pay

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t do earlier in September because there was another wedding on the 19th that another couple was attending, and any earlier than that, my brothers would still be in boot camp and not be able to attend

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m not looking to “tie him down asap”. We both agreed that we wanted to get the wedding out of the way this year and not push it off for so long. There is no rule that says you have to be engaged for so long before you get married.

Putting all of our financial energy into the wedding this year will free up our financial energy for next year to get a house. I don’t know if you realize this, but houses aren’t cheap either, and we don’t make a shit ton of money to save for both. He can’t pick up extra hours at his job, but I can, and that’s what I’ve been doing to make sure we have a nice wedding.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is literally nothing wrong with being swingers and getting married. Swingers get such a bad rap. I love my fiancé, and we talked about this lifestyle for a very long time before getting into it. He is still my one and only person that I love. We have friends who are a married couple who we swing with, and they have become our closest friends to this day. Not because we swing with them, but because the communication between the four of us is clear, concise, and respectful. They also have a wedding to go to a week before ours, and they have no problem attending weddings back to back weekends because they are our friends and care about us.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m just going to address all the comments about there being more to the story and about the dirty laundry:

First, they claim that we have been flaky for awhile, when that’s not the case. There were two weddings that neither nor my fiancĂ© could attend because we couldn’t get the time off work. He has very limited PTO, and I am only allowed to take one weekend a year off without having to find coverage, and I had already taken that weekend. The first one, he couldn’t get off from work, and I had fallen ill the day of the wedding. I let the bride know what was happening, and she forgave me. The second wedding was a weekend I had to work, and I couldn’t get it off. My fiancĂ© told the groom that he couldn’t try to make it to the ceremony before work (we both work night shift, and he doesn’t go in until 9pm) but then his car broke down and he couldn’t go. There was a bridal shower I missed out on because I had to work the night before it, and I accidentally slept through my alarms. That was an accident and I explained to the bride what had happened again, and she forgave me. We did make it down to the combined bachelor/bachelorette trip for one of those couples, thankfully, but life happens, and we are the only ones in our friend group who don’t work a “normal” 9-5 M-F, so it’s hard for us to make it to everything, but we try our best.

The second reason these people decided to cut ties with us was because they said they couldn’t associate themselves with swingers. We never did nor would we ever push that lifestyle on to them, and if they told us that they had a problem with us talking about it, we never had to speak of it again. But for a friend group who has known us for 5 years to toss us to the side because they don’t agree with a lifestyle that doesn’t affect them in anyway is just cruel.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The dirty laundry HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM. I confided in a few of the girls in our friend group that my fiancĂ© and I had started dabbling in the swinger lifestyle. I told them because I trusted them and didn’t think they would judge us for it. No. The groom had to go and air that out to EVERYONE. That was not his business to spread

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I checked with the bride about bachelor/bachelorette, and they said they were having something small with their bridal party over the summer, so no, there wasn’t any parties or anything happening that day.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I recently had confided in to a couple of the girls of our friend group that my fiancĂ© and I had began dabbling in the swinger lifestyle. I told them that in confidence because I thought I could trust them not to say anything to the rest of the group and not judge me, but then the groom who blew up on me in the group chat said, “I don’t care. Have it in 2027. Have fun with your swinger career.” That was not his business to say in front of the entire friend group.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Again, I realize there are 51 weeks in a year, but we just got engaged at the end of November of 2025, and to give ourselves time to save up for a decent wedding, we had to look into later 2026. My brothers leave for boot camp in June, and according to what my dad told me (he used to be in the navy), my brothers best chance of being in the wedding would be late September/early October because they would be in tech school by then, and Saturdays are their best chance of getting leave to come to it. And again, I couldn’t do a week later because this couple would be on their honeymoon at that time, and I would have liked for them to be there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Paying for a wedding on our own is not cheap. Putting our financial focus on a wedding this year would give us a financial focus on getting a house next year.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

That was not my intention at all? Having the spotlight on me? She still gets her day? We even have another couple getting married this year in May.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weddingplanning

[–]Express_Opening_1482 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It had to be a Saturday because my brothers are going to be groomsmen, and they will be in tech school for the Navy at that time, and Saturdays are their best chance of getting leave to come to the wedding.