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A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

by Tristan Taormino

Relationship expert and best selling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting, relationships.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships-- from partnered nonmonogamy to solo polyamory.

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?and will help you decide if an open relationship is right for you.

346 pages

Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

William ★★★★★

I picked this up after a few rocky attempts at opening my relationship, and the chapters on jealousy and time management were the most useful part. Taormino doesn't pretend it's easy, she just gives you actual tools for the hard conversations.

Hannah R. ★★★★★

Finally a book on non-monogamy that doesn't just theorize but actually walks you through the practical steps, like the way Taormino breaks down different agreement structures with real-life examples. I've read a ton on the topic and this one's the first that made me feel like I could actually sit do

Adam K. ★★★★★

The chapter on negotiating boundaries really helped my partner and I stop dancing around what we actually wanted—we finally sat down and mapped out our own agreement over a weekend. It's not just theory either; Taormino includes real exercises that made the abstract stuff feel doable. I've already l