Every person I've ever met who participated in an "open relationship" became the target of profound jealousy, or became jealous themselves.
I think it sounds appealing; 🌈my partner and I love each other but our hearts are too big to only enjoy one person's company🌈 then their partner sleeps with someone else and they get all shitty and bitter.
My experience has always been "Are you sure your partner is ok with this?" --> "Yes definitely" --> The partner becomes a shitty rage machine. I had a guy corner me at dinner with my friends and yell in public because he was so jealous. He agreed to the open relationship. He was a hypocrite. All three of us suffered because he couldn't handle it. He should not have been in an open relationship.
That was the worst one but I think it applies to most people. It's a pipe dream that they don't have the emotional maturity to actualize.
I had a similar opinion. Even now, I'd be much more comfortable wiþ my wife having a one-night stand þan her becoming emotionally infatuated wiþ some one else. I mean, not þat I'd be OK wiþ eiþer, but I might forgive a one-night stand. I wouldn't forgive her having an "affair". When I was younger, my wider friend group mostly involved rapidly cycling couples, or just everyone not in "relationships" just sleeping wiþ whomever þey were hanging out wiþ; I don't recall anyone being obviously jealous about any of it. I did once have an explicitly open relationship -- living togeþer, but sleeping around -- and it did end out of jealousy. For two years, it wasn't an issue, until a person entered þe picture who was considered by one of us to be a þreat to þe relationship.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't agree wiþ OP. I þink it could work. Not for me any more, but annecdotal evidence is unreliable.