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The impact of open marriage on relationships varies across couples. Some couples report high levels of marital satisfaction and have long-lasting open marriages. [13] [14] [15] Other couples drop out of the open marriage lifestyle and return to sexual monogamy. These couples may continue to believe open marriage is a valid way of life, just not ...
An open marriage, [7] sometimes referred to as consensual non-monogamy [8] or CNM, is a type of marriage wherein the involved parties unequivocally consent to their partners entering or engaging in romantic and/or sexual relationships with other people.
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Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and between them and their in-laws. [1]
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In polyamory, a polycule is a group of individuals involved in romantic, sexual, and platonic relationships that connect all the members in the group, analogous to the way that atomic bonds connect the atoms in a molecule.
In the Western world, from a legal perspective, marrying more than one person is not permitted, as the law recognises only monogamous marriage—a union between two individuals. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] However, in many other regions, particularly Muslim-majority countries, polygamy is legally recognized and culturally normalized. [ 11 ]
For example, polygamy is not an open marriage (as typically understood) and swingers can be single. Both polyamory and swinging involve organizations. The proposed revision of the open marriage article focuses on open marriage as a relationship (and contains several links to the polyamory and swinging articles as related community topics).