More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter is a brave memoir to write, and as Winter’s book shows, she and her husband are brave people – of a kind. I should say that adult couples with equal power relationships (does that even exist?) should communicate together on the parameters of what their union means to them. That includes sex, of course. If they decide to have an open relationship, than that is their right.
That said, it is not for me! Winter and her husband crave emotional and physical relationships with others – but I don’t get any sense that they are any happier than other people with a closed marriage. In fact, bringing more people into the sexual/emotional scene seems to not only solve little in the way of marital problems, but expands them.
In the end, though, it is their choice, and we have a choice to read about their experience or not.
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