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So, now I am 30 and have been in the swinging lifestyle for roughly a year. To say this last year has not changed me would be a lie, but I don’t feel changed. I feel as though this is who I always was, it is just now that the inner me shines through without being dulled by the chains and constraints that had been placed on my by myself and society.

There are times in the Lifestyle when we are certain of things. Our choices and decisions are solid and we know what we need and want in any given moment. But, we also run into moments where we are uncertain. Times when we don’t know what to do and we depend on our partners to help us figure things out. But there are some things we can only count on ourselves for. One of them is knowing what we want and need in our relationships and if we are settling in the process.

Andy and Michelle, while researching to open a safe haven for sexuality coffee shop called “Shameless Grounds” in St. Louis, traveled to Seattle and to a swing club. They describe their experiences in a “he said/she said” fashion and don’t pull any punches. In Part 3, they enjoy Dinner & Drinks and settle in

Since joining the Lifestyle, I’ve had many experiences that seemed dream-like, almost hallucinatory, because they came at me from outside of the vanilla frame of reference I lived within for most of my life – that having anything other than a two-person, monogamous relationship is unthinkable.

Andy and Michelle, while researching to open a safe haven for sexuality coffee shop called “Shameless Grounds” in St. Louis, traveled to Seattle and to a swing club. They describe their experiences in a “he said/she said” fashion and don’t pull any punches. In Part 2, they arrive at the Swing Club and learn the rules of the house.

Since we began our swinging adventures I have had a hard time figuring out how to fit this into my already relatively full life. At the very beginning, a few months back, we had dates every weekend sometimes two. Being newer to the lifestyle, they didn’t necessarily lead to actual swinging, but they still took time. Time that I would have normally spent doing something else.