open marriage

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It's entirely possible that nothing, not even an open marriage, could have saved Love and Joe's ultimately doomed relationship.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2021

In doing research for the role, Anderson called on his friend Sarunas Jackson, who plays a character in an open marriage on HBO’s “Insecure.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2020

I know you’re big fans of open marriage, but I can’t picture not getting overly attached to someone else, and I don’t want that either.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2020

Mrs. Knatchbull and her sister were raised by a governess and did not consider themselves close to their mother, who was absent for much of their upbringing and had a notoriously open marriage.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2017

Abélard would perhaps have consented to an open marriage had Héloïse been willing; but with a strange perversity she refused.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by Lord, John