The Dating Couple

The tale of Crystal and Jonathan, a bisexual girl and a straight guy, as they explore sex, dating and love in a polyamorous world.

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I will Call Him… Mini Me

I became a convert yesterday. I had a life-altering experience that filled me with joy and sent both my body and my soul to new heights.

It was a spiritual experience, one that taught me a great deal about myself as a human being and showed me that, no matter how well you think you know who you are, new experiences can open you up to exciting possibilities, exposing a whole new side of yourself.

That’s right, I got a Mac. Specifically, a Mac Mini.

What, did you think I was talking about something else? Perverts, all of you. I love you anyway though…

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Thank You, Fat Chicks and Haunted House

First, we have exciting news. Our friend Nina, gave us a glowing review and a great honor. I just wanted to thank her publicly for her kind words and thoughtfulness. We really appreciate the sentiment and all of the compliments she paid to us can easily apply to her as well. We’ve both been reading her blog for some time now and I highly recommend that everyone pop over there and show her some love.

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Aaaaand We’re Back

Depending on how you read this site, you’ve probably noticed one of two things:

  1. A lack of updates
  2. A lack of, well, site

To make a long story as short as possible, we were, up until a few hours ago, hosted with Dreamhost. However, sometime late last week, they began experiencing severe load problems on many of their servers, including the one we were on. For four days our site alternated between painfully slow and outright down.

To make matters worse, Dreamhost billed the problem as a “low” priority though thousands of sites were affected.  Not exactly the exemplary customer service I was promised.

So, on the advice of a good friend of mine, on Saturday, I started the process of porting the site over to Midphase.  The process went relatively smoothly, they even did the bulk of the transfer for me, and as of a few hours ago the DNS servers seem to have updated to the new location.

So now we’re back, in a new home at the same address. Coolest part of all is that this makes us next door neighbors to the lovely Nina.  Sadly, though we have tried, we have been unable to peek into her bedroom window.

Apparently good hosting will have to be enough motivation to stay.

Anyway, poke around the site some and let us know if you see any problems We noticed a few issues and squashed them right away (down gallery, some text problems, non-working permalinks, etc.) but there’s possibly more. Free thank yous to anyone that spots an issue!

Thanks to everyone for their patience. We should be back with more of the usual tomorrow!

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The Server Gremlins

There I was, diligently working on a new post. It was going to have everything important to me, sex, sex and cybersex. It was going to be a masterpiece. Surely it was worthy of at least a Pulitzer, probably more. They would have had to invent a new award to express the greatness of this piece.

However, when I hit save tragedy struck. The server was down. Worse still, the wonderful autosave feature built into WP, the one I had assumed was working diligently, didn’t actually save anything, meaning the site had been down for a while, and I lost my second first draft and got kicked back to my first first draft, which was too horrible to let out of the doghouse.

So rather than pollute the Internet with more garbage, like this post, I’m going to hold off a day and finish it up tomorrow. I promise that it will be good, or at least better than this (not much of a challenge I know).

In the meantime, if anyone knows where I can find a shotgun and a baseball bat, no questions asked, let me know. I have a message for my host.

Talk to you all tomorrow. Thanks for the patience.

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Welcome to TheDatingCouple.com

Welcome to our humble site, it is very much a work in progress.

My name is Jonathan. I, along with my significant other, Crystal, run this site. I am a straight guy, she is a bisexual girl and we are a polyamorous couple, looking for mutual love, or at least lust, with another love partner.

For the past five years we’ve been doing exactly that. From lesbian bars to coffee houses, strip clubs to laundry rooms and beyond, we’ve been meeting people, having fun and enjoying an alternative lifestyle. We’ve had several girlfriends, a few one-night stands and countless missfires. It’s been a long and winding journey to get where we are today.

Now, for the first time (well, actually the second but that time doesn’t count), we’re sharing that life with you. TheDatingCouple.com is going to be an unflinching and uncensored look at our mindset and lifestyle. This site won’t be just about sex, but also about love, relationships and much more. We’ll also be taking your questions and building much of this site around the topics you want to know more about.

In the meantime, check out the FAQs, read our bios and subscribe to our feed. It’s going to be one Hell of a ride, we’re looking forward to having you along for it.

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