Hot Dates: Open to Open Relationships

Death, Sex & Money

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Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Since we first talked, Jessie emailed to confess something about her dating life that she didn't tell me before. Plus, June's off Tinder! All summer, we're following a group of listeners as they date in real time around the country. We're calling this series Hot Dates—if you missed the introductory episode, go back and listen to it first. Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter, if you haven't already. Every Wednesday we send out podcast listening recommendations, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. And follow the show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Got a story to share? Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Since we last talked about your dating life, you sent us an email and you told me
0:05.8	something that you didn't say before about your romantic life.
0:10.3	Yeah, it's not something that I'm always super eager to talk about, I guess.
0:19.2	I have been seeing a couple of different people in open relationships.
0:25.0	Hey, it's Anna, with more hot dates, our series where we're following some of you while you look for romance this summer.
0:38.0	A couple of weeks ago, I got on the phone to catch up with Jessie.
0:41.0	She's the 36-year- old programmer who lives in Montana. In our first
0:45.2	conversation she told me that she's not finding a lot of guys she clicks with
0:49.2	on dating apps. But after we first spoke she sent me an email to confess that she actually has been seeing
0:56.2	a couple of men that she likes.
0:58.3	They're just not single.
1:00.0	One of them is married and has been for a while.
1:02.5	And then the other is seeing someone for about a year now.
1:07.0	Both men are in open relationships.
1:09.6	They've agreed with their partners that they can date and sleep with other people.
1:13.7	It seems really, really normal and then all of a sudden I'll just have like this check-in moment where it's like,
1:18.2	what the hell?
1:19.4	Like what are you doing?
1:20.4	I'm curious how this started for you. How did you meet the first guy who was in a relationship that you started meeting up with?
1:29.0	As everyone does on Tinder. Yeah, he was very clear about what his situation was in his profile
1:36.4	and I was a little, I don't know, I try to be open and open to possibilities and so I was like, okay, maybe.
1:46.2	But that was my first experience with any type of more non-traditional relationship.
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