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When You Agree to an Open Marriage to Avoid Abandonment

My husband asked for an open marriage and I said yes because I was afraid of losing him but watching him with other women is destroying me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Consenting to arrangements that violate our emotional needs in order to preserve connection often accelerates the very loss we feared.

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