Opening Up: A Guide To Creating and Sustaining Open RelationshipsRelationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships — from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work, including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting and time management. Opening Up will change the way you think about intimacy. |
Contents
SECTION | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 Myths about Nonmonogamy | 13 |
CHAPTER 3 Is an Open Relationship for You? | 19 |
CHAPTER 4 What Makes an Open Relationship Work? | 33 |
SECTION | 51 |
CHAPTER 6 Swinging | 61 |
CHAPTER 7 Polyamory | 71 |
CHAPTER 8 Solo Polyamory | 87 |
CHAPTER 14 Common Challenges and Problems | 183 |
When Something Changes | 203 |
CHAPTER 16 Coming Out or Not Finding Community Creating | 227 |
CHAPTER 17 Raising Children | 249 |
CHAPTER 18 Safer Sex and Sexual Health | 263 |
CHAPTER 19 Legal and Practical Issues | 285 |
CHAPTER 20 The Future of Relationships | 295 |
Notes | 301 |
CHAPTER 9 Polyfidelity | 95 |
CHAPTER 10 MonogamousNonmonogamous and MonoPoly | 111 |
CHAPTER 11 Designing Your Open Relationship | 121 |
CHAPTER 12 Jealousy and Other Intense Feelings | 153 |
CHAPTER 13 Compersion | 173 |
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About the Interviewees | 337 |
About the Author | 345 |
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Opening Up: A Guide To Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships Tristan Taormino No preview available - 2008 |
Opening Up: A Guide To Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships Tristan Taormino No preview available - 2008 |
Opening Up: A Guide To Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships Tristan Taormino No preview available - 2008 |
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