How To Have an Open Relationship
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Abe's girlfriend wants to try something different—sleeping with other people. In other words, she wants an open relationship. Abe could be on board, but he has some questions. How does that work exactly? What are the ground rules? And what if it ultimately causes them to break up? After all, they've been a couple for the better part of 10 years, and just moved back in together after some time apart. In this episode of How To!, we bring on Rich Juzwiak and Stoya, columnists for Slate's How To Do It sex advice column. Rich and Stoya have the expert tips—and the personal experience—to help Abe navigate this brave new world and decide whether an open relationship is right for him.
If you liked this episode, check out "How To Talk to Your Son About Sex."
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| 0:31.0 | I mean, listen, I'd love to go out and be able to sleep with whoever I want, right? |
| 0:35.0 | The part that I'm struggling with is like being okay |
| 0:38.0 | with my partner doing the same thing. |
| 0:40.4 | Welcome to how to. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Charles Duhlin. |
| 0:44.1 | This week we're tackling a question |
| 0:45.4 | that can be somewhat hard to ask out loud. |
| 0:48.0 | How to have a relationship where everyone can sleep |
| 0:50.6 | with whoever they want. |
| 0:52.7 | And fair warning, this is kind of an R-rated episode. So if you |
| 0:56.6 | have kids listening with you, let me suggest you turn it off and listen to a different episode |
| 1:01.2 | first titled How to Talk to Your Son About Sex. You can find that and all of our episodes |
| 1:06.6 | in our podcast feed. Okay, so if the kids are out of the room, here's our listener. |
| 1:13.1 | My name is Abe. |
| 1:14.1 | I'm a software engineer. |
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