We have been open and poly for 5 years, married for 9. We continue to evolve in what has worked as people have shared time and companionship with us. Looking for a friend, who would potentially be an intimate partner as well.

She is bi, he is straight. Accepting and supportive of our friends and partners individual circumstances, hopeful to find the connection that feels right and good to all involved.

Yet, we are a married couple, living together, so these types of relationships are hard to have a sense of balance and equality. Yet, this is what we strive for as best as we all can.

We are happy to share and do things together. Outdoors, indoors, at home, on the road, discovering and exploring.

Recently, we had a lovely extended, relationship, sharing activities, times in each other's homes, and intimate moments, together and separately, with a friend, still on good terms, but she found her own exclusive partner, which is a happy event, and she decided to focus on that, so the intimate side has subsided, and we remain supportive. These are the normal transitions though. That is normal. Still a tinge of loss and sadness, to have had those moments of sheer joy and togetherness, a weaving together of lives. Then each journey continues, bridges that are built can be re-crossed if time and circumstance allows (and the bridges are not burned down!)

So, perhaps "dating" or having a relationship/connection with a couple is good for those in between relationship moments?

A way station and respite for those who find themselves at a point in their lives where they are feeling loneliness or detachment from others, want company, closeness, a feeling of tribe and family, or sexual/sensual intimacy, but do not have it, yet still be free to pursue whatever comes along that will also meet needs, desires, and happiness.

Happy to have a sense of familiarity, a place we can all feel welcome, and together, but venture out from into the wide wild world, And return to recharge, happy sanctuary from the travails of existence.

And as a bonus: ocean, beach, gardens, and chickens.