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When Your Partner Wants an Open Relationship

My partner wants to open our relationship and says if I really loved them I would want them to be happy but the thought of it makes me feel physically sick.

Hypatia
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between different definitions of love and commitment forces a reckoning with fundamental incompatibilities.

Ideas that help explain it
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