I'm a 28-year-old straight man and my wife is a 31-year-old mostly straight woman. We have been married for four years. I recently discovered the lovecast and your column, and my wife and I have been voraciously consuming back episodes ever since. It usually takes an hour or two to get through an episode because we keep pausing to discuss each caller before listening to your response.

I just want to thank you for inspiring us to really work on communication and being open with each other. While we haven't been inspired to try dolphin fucking, we have been inspired to contemplate an open marriage where we're both free to explore relationships with other people. It has been hugely liberating (and a huge turn on for us both) to discuss and fantasize openly about our desires for other people. Thinking about dating others has also made me realize how complacent I had become in my own marriage with the assumption that we'd always be together. I had been neglecting the romantic side of our relationship. When I realized that I was willing to take other women on dates or to the movies—I don't like going to movies—but wasn't regularly taking my wife out to do the things she likes to do, I had to take a closer look at my negligence.

While neither of us has had an outside partner yet, I am happy to report that we're having more great, kinky, fun sex than we have in years, and our lines of communication are wide open. Thanks for all that you do!

Boy Is Grateful Reader

P.S. You sometimes encourage listeners to send you pictures (for science!) so here is a small token of my appreciation. Attached please find a photo of 24-year-old me, fresh out of the Navy.

Thanks for sharing, BIGR, and thank you for the picture—the Internet definitely needed a pic of 24-year-old you, fresh out of both the Navy and your pants. It's NSFW and it's after the jump...

We had to cover the cock. Sorry, Slog. But BIGR authorized me to release an unedited version of his photo. It should start popping up various on Tumblr blogs soon.