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.
Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations.
Relating polyamory to astrology and the elements (air, fire, water, earth, and spirit), the author addresses all aspects of the polyamorous life, including family life, sexual ethics, emotional issues, proper etiquette, relationship boundaries, and the pros of cons of this lifestyle. Kaldera also discusses polyamory as a path of spiritual transformation and shares spells, rituals, and ceremonies for affirming one's relationships and spirituality.
As a couples counselor for many years I have seen how obligation poisons intimacy. In this ground breaking book Deborah Anapol shows us that there is another way to be intimate, a way that
can lead us to freedom from the addiction to control.
--Dr Susan Campbell, author of Getting Real and Truth in Dating
This book is a valuable guide for the establishing and nurturing of healthy intimate relationships that are responsibly nonmonogamous, and a valuable resource for educators and counsellors working in the fields of sexual, mental and emotional health
--Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
There are people of courage around to test the limits of various forms of cultural insanity, like conventional marriage, conventional war, and conventional politics. Deborah Anapol is such a person. Because she dares to do this she helps us face what we all say we want but we are all most terrified of: Love.
--Brad Blanton, Ph.D. author Radical Honesty