Can an Open Relationship Save Your Marriage? | 48

Call Me Curious

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Love! Everybody wants to find it. However, keeping up a relationship can sometimes be just as difficult as finding one. We try everything to stoke the fire that might be burning out - so could the answer be to throw another log on the fire? Nikki and Malone ask the burning question: "Can an open relationship save your marriage?" They speak with a polyamorous couple who share how an open relationship works for them. They are joined by Dr. Amy Moors, an assistant professor of psychology and a research fellow at the Kinsey Institute, who is an expert on consensual nonmonogamy.

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0:00.0	From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, or just got-a-no questions you have.
0:16.9	And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is.
0:21.0	Because I've got 21 questions.
0:23.6	I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson.
0:28.3	Call me curious.
0:32.1	Call me curious.
0:34.2	Call me curious.
0:35.1	So tell the truth. Hey everybody. Hi, and welcome to the show. I'm so happy you're here today. So back on the day when I was just a little Nikki Boyer, I was over at a friend's house where her mom was hanging out with someone who was not her dad. And I was like, hey, who's that? And my friend, matter of fact, he said, oh, that's Rob. He's here for the weekend. And I was like, oh, okay. Just curious, does your dad know about Rob? And my friend said, yep, he comes over a weekend a month and hangs out. My dad's cool with it. I kind of just let it go. Well, it wasn't until years later that I realized that my friend's parents had an open relationship.
1:29.6	They spent a weekend a month seeing other people.
1:32.8	Oh, that stuff isn't supposed to happen in your neighborhood.
1:35.3	No, you have to drive hours to a swingers convention in San Diego, or maybe one of your
1:39.9	parents' weird friends would have a key party.
1:43.1	Unfortunately, a lot of my friend's parents
1:45.1	ended up getting divorced, but not this friend. So whatever Rob was doing, it worked for them.
1:52.3	And while today, it kind of seems like open relationships are on the rise, so much so that experts
1:57.1	have a name for it, and it's called consensual non-monogamy. It's not cheating. It's an
2:03.0	agreed-upon form of intimacy among couples. So today I call me curious, friends, we are going to
2:08.7	answer the question, can an open relationship save your marriage? Mmm, juicy. But before we dive in,
2:17.0	I want to bring on someone who looks forward to monogamy, but until it comes along, he's a Rob.
2:22.2	My good friend, Malone, hi.
2:24.7	Oh, my gosh.
2:25.5	Hi, Nikki.
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