Newest power couple in sports world

[HanSenSE]

Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird announce they're engaged — see the pic

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I thought they were already married. Apparently not.

 

[DanOregon]

One thing I've always wondered about in same-sex relationships is how couples figure out the "dynamic" for lack of a better word. I've been to a few same-sex weddings, receptions, have relatives who are in same-sex marriages - but I've always been too afraid to ask, when it comes down to it - how do they decide who asks who? And how that translates into the overall relationship.

 

[SoloFlyer]

One thing I've always wondered about in same-sex relationships is how couples figure out the "dynamic" for lack of a better word. I've been to a few same-sex weddings, receptions, have relatives who are in same-sex marriages - but I've always been too afraid to ask, when it comes down to it - how do they decide who asks who? And how that translates into the overall relationship.

You talkin' in the bedroom or just in everyday life? Because most modern couples have no set gender roles in everyday life regardless of gender.

In the bedroom, it's like any relationship: Some people are submissive, some people are dominant, some are both. Some like toys, some prefer au naturale, some get wild. You figure it out over the course of the relationship and if it doesn't work, then the relationship doesn't work.

 

[DanOregon]

I do think in most ways its a more "honest" way to figure out a relationship rather than be saddled with traditional gender expectations.

 

[SoloFlyer]

I do think in most ways its a more "honest" way to figure out a relationship rather than be saddled with traditional gender expectations.

Any relationship and sex therapist would say it's healthiest.

Outside of the bedroom, there are men and women who still prefer the traditional roles. There's sometimes a religious component to that, but sometimes women just want to be stay-at-home moms. And they find a husband who wants and supports that.

I think the pressure to conform to those roles is gone, though. Two-career households are common. It's no longer strange for a wife to make more than her husband. And I bet in industries that are still male dominated like sports journalism, I bet you'll find more than a few sports writers who were laid off and became stay-at-home dads while the wife kept working.

Only natural that fluidity extends to same-sex couples.