33-year-old Monica wrote to us. Her marriage is on the rocks, and she doesn’t know what to do. But the thing is, Monica’s story is so out of the ordinary that few people have ever experienced anything like it.
Monica and her husband had been very happy with their open marriage.

Monica, 33, has sent us a letter and told us her story, in order to get a piece of advice from our readers about her quite complicated family situation.

The woman started her letter, saying, “I have an open relationship with my beloved husband, Todd. We have been married for 5 years and the last 2 years we have been in an open marriage. We both find it very satisfying, because this type of relationship helps us preserve the spirit of freshness in our relations.
I can’t say I was very fond of this idea when it was first suggested by Todd. I did hesitate a lot, but finally, I found more benefits in an open marriage than drawbacks. None of us is a jealous person, but we do appreciate honesty in any type of communication. This arrangement was from the start considered a temporary one, and we agreed that we’ll get back to a traditional marriage as soon as one of us finds an open relationship uncomfortable and unsettling.”