A psychotherapist's perspective on open relationships: The research, the risks, and what nobody tells you about navigating non-monogamy with kids involved.
Maybe it’s just me and my conditioning…but when your spouse hints that he or she wants an “open marriage,” the marriage already is over and it’s time to move on…because your spouse probably has been having an affair for a while and wants to use the open marriage conversation to make it official.
It's not just you. it's a very real possibly and it happens more often than people think. Which is why it's important that the topic be a mutually consensual one from the start. That's what I meant by "thinly veiled excuse to cheat with a permission slip"...
Well…okay…but often, the mutually consensual conversation means that both partners are having affairs, but they want to keep their marriage going for the sake of convenience. They want their cake and to eat it too, which hardly ever works out in real life.
Maybe it’s just me and my conditioning…but when your spouse hints that he or she wants an “open marriage,” the marriage already is over and it’s time to move on…because your spouse probably has been having an affair for a while and wants to use the open marriage conversation to make it official.
It's not just you. it's a very real possibly and it happens more often than people think. Which is why it's important that the topic be a mutually consensual one from the start. That's what I meant by "thinly veiled excuse to cheat with a permission slip"...
Well…okay…but often, the mutually consensual conversation means that both partners are having affairs, but they want to keep their marriage going for the sake of convenience. They want their cake and to eat it too, which hardly ever works out in real life.