Topic: Couple Has An Open Marriage So Complicated, It's Hard To Keep Track

[oldcoastie6468]

Couple Has An Open Marriage So Complicated, It's Hard To Keep Track
Posted: 11/26/2013 5:18 pm EST  |  Updated: 11/27/2013 1:06 am EST

Michael loves his wife, Kamala. Michael also likes his 27-year-old girlfriend, Rachel. So six months ago, Kamala decided to do what most wives would never even consider: she invited Rachel to come live with them and their six year-old son.

Monogamy just doesn't work for the couple, whose relationship is featured on Showtime’s "Polyamory: Married & Dating." What does work for them is a polyamorous lifestyle, Kamala and Michael tell Nightline reporter Nick Watt in the report above. (Rachel is not the first person they've invited into their relationship during the course of their 12-year marriage; the couple previously shared their home with another couple, and Kamala has been in a relationship with another woman for two years.)

"Monogamy can be a really beautiful agreement between people when they're deeply in love and they don't have desire for another," Kamala says. "But most people in our society are just monogamous because their vows said 'I will forsake all others.'"

The trio's seemingly blissful relationship -- they do yoga together, love tantric sex and collectively raise the couple's son -- leaves the Nightline reporter wondering if maybe they're on to something. With so many marriages ending in divorce -- oftentimes because of infidelity -- is polyamory the answer to all our divorce woes?

Jenny Block, author of Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage, thinks so.

“It’s becoming clear that heterosexual monogamous marriage simply doesn’t work for most people. And I think people are tired of being unhappy and dissatisfied," she told the Daily Beast earlier this month.

What can I say?      

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/open-marriage-_n_4345000.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

[warpmine]

Whatever!

[Predator Don]

ehhh..... So Heaven isn't gonna be too crowded.

[Pablo de Fleurs]

A sidebar attempt to re-contextualize/redefine marriage as whatever emotional pressures you need to alleviate, rather than something sacred that, yes, DOES need to be worked at...but therein lies one of the rewards.

[Libertas]

Outlaw it - punishment is death.  Problem solved.

[ToddF]

Looks to me like nothing more complicated than a piece of white trash just convincing his wife to let him have a little 2 on 1 action.  Another shot across the bow of polygamy. 

[Septugenarian]

Just send them to Muzziestan for some public opinion enforcement.

[richb]

What sucks the most about it is the child,  growing up in a very strange household.   Very sad. 

[LadyVirginia]

We now have a childish culture.  If it's too hard to do, you don't have to do it.

[AlanS]

We now have a childish culture.  If it's too hard to do, you don't have to do it.

We'll change the rules because you're special.