There is a reason why the experimentation with that kind of relationships have been on a decline since it's peak in the sixties/seventies.
We are talking about being in love not just being fuck buddies.
This is not just from one example this among other things a series of documentaries, friends and my now 37 years.
Of course there are some people who can deal with it but chances are that they are not in love. That is at least my experience feel free to counter with experiences or knowledge about successful open relationships where the people are
I know of none and I know quite a few people who did it, saw a couple of documentaries about it.
I am more than happy to be proven wrong but as far as I am concerned my point still stands and is fairly rational.
If you are in love, open relationships ain't what it's all pumped up to be.
http://www.novemberwest.com/blog/?p=5
Disclaimer: I wrote it. Yes, it's my site. Whatever.
I've heard that said about every Capital D Diet Plan. I have a hypothesis about weight loss which is that it's actually simpler than many people make it out to be. Your body basically has inputs and outputs when it comes to food. If you want to lose weight and/or trim up, you need to either decrease how much food goes in, or increase how much your body burns as energy or turns into new/replaced body cells. That's pretty much it. The overwhelming number of people with weight problems (assuming exceptions are folks with genetic disorders) are just people who are eating too much for what they're body is doing, or, doing too little with their body given the amount of food going in. The type/mix of food matters too, but that's also a no brainer -- don't eat junk, but if you do, eat as little as you can and spread it out with healthy/efficient stuff -- and if you do eat more junk, then you better work it off more to compensate.
Why?
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
If not, I apologize in advance for my insanity. ;)
My shot at immortality costs me $120/year for membership in the Cryonics Institute and $170/year for $250K of 10-year term life insurance of which $50K goes to CI.
I lost 20 pounds on Seth Roberts's fixed-point diet (aka the "Shangri-La diet") and gained 10 of them back after the diet stopped working, but it's ridiculously easy and works better for some people than others.
An awful lot of the rationalists I know have moved to open relationships.