same 3 couples for 12 yrs and at this point i love them more than i wanna sleep with them, is this still LS

genuine question, not a flex. f48 he 50, married 21 yrs, LS since 2010. about a yr in we found 3 other couples we just clicked with — west coast couple, our local "best friends" couple, and this older couple from texas — and we've all rotated together ever since. we've been at each others kids graduations. we did a beach house last summer (10 ppl, one big house, kids included, nothing sexual the whole week bc the kids were there and we just ate tacos and played cards). when my husband had surgery in 2022 the texas couple flew up and sat with me in the hospital. THAT level of close. the LS part has gotten... quieter though. we still play when we get together, mostly. but its more like a sweet familiar thing now. less "omg im gonna jump her bones" and more "oh hi, how have you been, lets do this thing we've done a hundred times, also did you bring the white wine i like". the west coast wife and i sometimes just talk on the bed half dressed for an hour while the guys watch a game. there have been weekends where nothing physical happened at all and we all just hung out. so the question is. is this still the lifestyle. or is this just deep friendship that has a sex chapter that's slowly closing. and does it matter what we call it. my husband says "who cares what its called these are our ppl". which is correct. but i also feel like we've drifted out of being LS couples and into being something else and i dont have a word for it. we're not poly, we're not closed, we're not really "swingers" anymore in the active sense. we're like... a chosen family of 4 couples that occasionally has sex. is there even a name for this stage

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