Best of: Why everyone is talking about polyamory
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re bringing you an episode from our archives: Molly Roden Winter was a frustrated mom of two in Brooklyn when she and her husband decided that they should open up their marriage. What followed was a 10-year journey of self-exploration that took her not only into some seedy hotel rooms but also to therapy, back to work, and into other activities that added up to a more fulfilling life. Today Molly is on the show to talk about her memoir More in which she details her journey. She also tells Lilah what polyamory could teach monogamous couples.
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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):
– Molly’s book More is out now
– The FT’s review of More, by Rana Foroohar, is here: https://on.ft.com/3UmsdUF
– Molly is on X @mollyrwinter
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| 0:00.0 | Hi listeners, it's Lila. So today we're bringing you an episode from our archives. You may remember last week on the podcast, we were talking about great beach reads for the summer, and one of our books editors, Laura Battle, recommended a memoir called Moore. We actually interviewed the author of Moore, Molly Rodin Winter, back in February, so we decided to drop that conversation |
| 0:21.9 | into your feed today. We hope you enjoy it, and we'll see you with a brand new episode on Friday. |
| 0:31.6 | This is Life and Art. I'm Lila Raptopolis. Molly Road in Winter was a stay-at-home mom in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood |
| 0:39.2 | called Park Slope when she found herself attracted to a younger man. This man was not her husband, |
| 0:45.0 | but the guy who was, Stewart, urged her to go for it. So the two opened their marriage. |
| 0:50.9 | Thus began a journey of exploration that is now a best-selling book called Moore, |
| 0:55.5 | Memoir of an Open Marriage. |
| 0:57.5 | Moore has been seemingly everywhere, reviewed in the New Yorker, in the New York Times, |
| 1:02.6 | in the FT, and others. |
| 1:04.6 | It also drew my attention because the idea this book is based on feels like it's been |
| 1:08.7 | everywhere, too. |
| 1:09.8 | In the last few years, open relationships |
| 1:11.5 | and polyamory have been discussed all over television. They're on magazine covers, on TikTok, on |
| 1:17.2 | podcasts, and our team here wanted to know more. So today, Molly's with us in the studio to talk about |
| 1:24.1 | her book and about her experience with an open polyamorous marriage through its ups and downs. |
| 1:31.1 | Molly, hi, welcome to the show. |
| 1:32.5 | Hi, thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:34.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:35.8 | So your book, it felt like it was structured around a number of themes, |
| 1:39.9 | but the two that really stood out to me were, one, the sort of adventures and misadventures of the relationships that you're in. |
| 1:48.4 | And the other is your own path toward what I read as self-trust or self-fulfillment. |
| 1:55.9 | Could you set the scene for what was going on in your life maybe to start at the time that the book opens? |
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