Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. As always, we've got a great show plan for you.

This topic has been talked about on the show before, but over the past three weeks, I've gotten a

handful of people reaching out about this and it's coming more and more into my clinical practice.

So we're going to kind of talk about it from a different entry point. Signs that an open relationship might be right for you.

Not so much how to do an open relationship.

We've talked about that, but signs that may be it's right for you.

So that's to help couples decide are we, you know, the right couple.

Do we have what it takes?

It's on the rise.

I can't tell you how many people are reaching out for therapy

around this issue, wanting to explore, wanting to learn better how to pull it off. I know for some

people, this is a very foreign concept, but this is becoming a clinical issue that I'm seeing

more and more of. And so the relevance, the prevalence of it on the increase. So you will

hear us talking more and more about it. You're seeing it more on television, tons more books being

written about it. So, but again, remember, as always, even if you're married or monogamous or

whatever it is, there's still a lot we can learn by looking at the way other cultures, other

lifestyles, other identities, how they exist, how they thrive.

There's a lot that monogamy can learn from polyamory and open styles,

and there's a lot that polyamory and open styles can also learn from monogamy.

Because at the end of the day, we're breaking it down to the same core issues.

And I want you to understand that.

Although you might think it's very distinct, we're talking about trust,

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