My quick take: Sounds interesting. But at the end, one must ask the question “Why get married in the first place?”. If what they say about Will and Jada Smith is true, I do not hold them up as an example of a strong marriage. I don’t care how many photo ops they have together. If they lack the will to be committed to each other while forsaking all others, I do not want my kids looking to them for marriage inspiration. I do not care how the media thinks otherwise. Leave that role to me and my wife.
This brutha makes some very good points regarding the whole “open marriage” thing.
“Open marriage may seem sane to some as it allows for forgiveness on both sides if and when both partners give into the inevitable temptations and stray. The thinking is, “If we’re going to cheat, let’s at least be honest about it.” But it is not a real solution. I don’t have the statistics to prove it, and with today’s divorce rate, traditional marriages aren’t exactly stellar in the numbers department, but from a purely practical perspective, we can’t have it both ways.”
