A person in recovery from substance use shares how to approach open relationships safely. Start with a trusted partner in a familiar place, strip away complications, and expect to learn what actually works for you only by trying it.
Open relationships plus recovery plus chemsex are harder. Yeah, yeah. And I think it's really important in this context to very deeply make sure that if you are opening things up again post-using, you make it as easy and comfortable as possible. You know, make sure that you are going to hook up with someone maybe who you already know, maybe who you know is a safe person. Yeah. Maybe you Hook up at their house. If you used in certain spaces like hotels, maybe don't hook up in a hotel. Make sure that you can strip away all of the things that would add complication because it's already going to be complicated, especially if there's been breaches of trust in the past. Yeah. That's part 1. Part 2 is that you will only know how you feel about something after you've done it. I think that's another part of open relationships that people either make or break.
