it goes back to how confident you are about yourself, your friend/partner/lover/SO, your relationship.
if the two of can live with the other person doing what they do, whether that be skydiving, making tons of money as a stockbroker, being a film critic, owning a business, providing, or hobbying, then more power to you.
i'm a pretty accepting person. if my SO and i made a commitment to each other and set out the boundaries, as long as we were not screwing the other person around or doing bad things to people, i could see myself in a relationship w/ a provider.
but it would take more than a few "dates" before i felt like i could even think about making a relationship with her. it would take plenty of months and plenty of heart-to-hearts to decide if we could get along, have similar goals, enjoyed doing similar things.
to jump in otherwise might be like going down a Class IV river w/ only an inner tube - possibly but probably not lots of fun.
and to say it cant happen if ignoring that there are some people who have done it and some who are still together today. i'd just have to find one couple to prove that point.
as just bieber might sing "never say never" :^)
Originally Posted by pmdelites
+10000
A (fiancée, for those who haven't been keeping score) and D (the provider, dur) and I have spent many a day-into-night sitting on the floor, first getting to know each other (knew D long before I had met A), then a ¿4? day non-stop weekend discussing boundaries if the move was made.
It helps that my girls are also enormously attracted to each other and very willing to share, but the key is, as I have said many times, communication. I fully expect there to be issues crop up when it happens, but everyone has committed to ***talking about it*** when they do. None of us are jealous types (tho that copy of "The Lorena Bobbitt Story" that my ex-wife gave A Xmas-before-last seems to be more well thumbed now that it lives in D's bathroom with whatever *I'm* reading at the time), and agree that jealousy and love are mutually exclusive, since the latter is based on trust, and the former on a lack thereof.
Not sure if I'm I'm entirely comfortable with them referring to themselves as my "harem," but I think I might get to like it
Definitely agree that having confidence in the relationship, how ever many partners there are, is necessary -- but that's true of any relationship, regardless of any job choices that may have been made.
Again, I have a bit different perspective, and YMMV.