Monogamy: the Renegade Choice
Ironically, open marriages are often portrayed as a way to preserve a struggling marriage by allowing one or both partners to find sexual fulfillment elsewhere, while keeping the stable framework of the marriage intact. But research has found that long-term stability and happiness are tied to having less, not more, sexual partners, with the least likely cohort to divorce being women whose only sexual partner in life is the man they married. Research published in these pages also found that couples who are the “least sexually experienced” outside of marriage report the highest levels of both sexual and emotional satisfaction in their marriages.
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