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When open relationship boundaries shift in practice

My partner and I have an open relationship that we thought we both wanted, but now that they're seeing someone else regularly I'm realizing I might not be as okay with it as I thought, and I don't know how to say that without seeming like I'm changing the rules.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

What we think we can handle and what our hearts can actually bear are sometimes different countries entirely.

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