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[quote=Anonymous]Haven’t read the book but read the linked article and the WaPo one. I had two initial impressions:

1) I don’t buy the “their marriage is great/this wasn’t born out of trying to fix the marriage” slant. It seems the impetus for the open marriage was her going out and flirting with a stranger and telling her husband about it out of resentment. 
2) That he quickly responded by encouraging her to go have sex with others and that he’s described as having an easier experience with open marriage than her makes me suspect that he had been cheating on her the whole time, had already “opened” his side.

Maybe by now it works well for both but it doesn’t sound like something born out of a happy, healthy marriage. Rather it seems to have been about her making things even but having to go through unhealthy and difficult experiences (getting involved with married men, how ethical and enlightened! Having to “work through” jealousy and insecurity, how pleasant and fulfilling!) in order to reach their current state of balance and satisfaction. [/quote]

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