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There's a difference between polyamorous relationships and open marriages in that there is not necessarily any love for others in the second.
Societal mores have drilled into us that we are incapable of loving more than one person at a time-a notion I find utterly absurd. Do we only love one child at a time or one parent?
Only geese and a few other birds mate 'for life' as an instinctual behavior. For humans, it's a choice.
The essay was good for what it was, but they've only been open for two years and it's more of an allowance on his part since he has no desire to go outside the marriage. But I don't agree with some of the comments there that it's a death knell for them any more than any other issue might be. A marriage dies because the love that was there has died. And sometimes, long after it's dead, we still live with the corpse...
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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.
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