My Boyfriend Wants To Open Up Our Relationship—Help! - Ep 183

Dear Shandy

Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Relationships, After Shows

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

It's Caller Day! Today we're joined by lovely caller Rosemary who has been with her partner for 2.5 years. The two always thought they might be open to non-monogamy one day, but she's suddenly faced with the reality of that idea and isn't sure what to do. Should she lay down the law and wait for circumstances to be just right, or is there never a "just right" circumstance and should she take the plunge? Listen on for the Shandy take!

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0:00 - Welcome To Caller Rosemary!

52:17 - Shandy Debrief

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0:00.0	I know God. You're in a contrarian mood today.
0:03.0	I was the first one to say this. I can't be contrarian. You're contrarian.
0:07.0	Okay. I can't contrarian nothing. You never gave it opinion before I gave mine.
0:14.0	Dear Shandy.
0:17.0	Welcome back to Dear Shandy listeners. Hello, Andy. Hello. How are you today?
0:22.0	You are looking awfully limey today. Lime?
0:26.0	It looks like a 70s lime. Is not what everything was colored in the 70s.
0:32.0	It's like telephones, calls, calls.
0:34.0	That's true. Definitely telephones. I can picture it. I can picture that telephone in the Queen's Gambit.
0:39.0	Oh, nice.
0:40.0	Yeah. Well, it's color day. And we are joined today by a lovely color named Rosemary.
0:46.0	Rosemary, thank you so much for joining us. Hello Rosemary.
0:48.0	I'm excited to be here. Could you give us your age, your city or region, whatever you're comfortable sharing, and your story, please?
0:55.0	I am 26 years old. I am in Pennsylvania.
1:00.0	And yeah, my story starts two and a half years ago when I met my partner.
1:07.0	I met my partner during COVID. So it was summer of 2020. You know, at the time I was like 22, 23.
1:14.0	I knew that I really liked this guy, but I also knew in my heart that I wanted to be able to explore my sexuality more because I am on the queer spectrum.
1:29.0	You know, I'm, I would say I'm, yeah, I'm bisexual, pansexual, something like that.
1:34.0	And I found out that my partner, who ended up being my partner, is also on the spectrum.
1:39.0	So when we first started getting together and we realized that we, you know, our relationship was becoming serious. I, I told him, you know, I'm, I'm really interested in committing myself to you, but I also know that down the line, I'll probably want to explore this aspect of my identity.
1:57.0	And I just, I just want to be open about that. And he said that that was totally fine and that we can talk about being open potentially one day, but we decided not, not today, you know, not, not for a while until we really developed like a foundation of trust and,
2:12.0	and loyalty and all the other things that are important in a relationship. And so, yeah, we've been together for two and a half years, we live together. And things have been going really well.
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