1) Do you love your spouse?
Absolutely! With all my heart.
2) Do you get jealous at all when your spouse has sex with another person?
No, it's the circumstances surrounding the act that are important, ie. behaviour, inclusion, attitude. The "having sex with another person" part is a turn-on for me.
3) Do you prefer your current situation over a "conventional" marriage?
Yes, although it took a few tries to get it right and figure out what was best for us... some rocky times there. We're not officially married yet, but lived together for six years so I figured that counted
I can't imagine not having the openness to explore all my desires, and wouldn't want to limit someone else to the same.
4) Do you think there is someone else out there that you might meet some day that you would prefer to have a "conventional" marriage with?
No, I think it's too engrained in who I am.
5) Do you intend to be in your current marriage forever? If so, do you intend to keep it open forever?
Yep and yep.
6) What does being married bring to you that "just dating" doesn't?
Same thing it brings anyone I suppose... closeness, sharing a life together... he's the only one I want to be with in a romantic relationship. The rest is just sex, or physical expression of close feelings, and so on.
7) Are there some people you prefer to have sex with rather than your spouse?
No, although being with another female is an entirely different experience... not to say that I prefer it, but it's so different that it's hard to compare, and it's important to me.
8) Are you always honest with your spouse about who you sleep with?
Yes, and it's not like we live the swingers lifestyle... we don't go to clubs and pick up people or anything. It's usually friends and stuff.
9) Does it make a difference if your spouse doesn't tell you who he/she sleeps with during your marriage?
In our situation, yes. We both agree that we want to know about it to at least share in the experience in some sense.
10) Please define what "open marriage" means to you in a personal sense.
It means being with someone other than your spouse in a sexual way. To me that includes threesomes/groups too, but I guess not everyone would consider that "open". It is being able to explore other situations and people while having the intense love and bond with your spouse.