Open: Love, Sex and Life in an Open Marriage

I couldn’t wait to read this book! From the excerpts and reviews that I had read the book sounded like a great, interesting read . . .screech . . .To me, unfortunately, only the interesting paragraphs were picked out and shown for the sale of this blah, my life’s journey book. This book would have been so much better condensed into an article. Ms. Block is bored by her sex life, or lack thereof and decides to try an open marriage. (This comes after two prior cosmetic surgery’s . . see anything here?) It seems that after her busband tries the open marriage thing a couple of times, he is done . . ?. . . but after Ms. Block first claims that she is not promiscuous (but worries about catching a disease?!) she has now settled into a marriage with her husband but also has a committed relationship with another woman . .oh, and Ms. Block will never divorce her husband. . sounds kind of like an affair to me with a different label. But if whatever she is doing makes her happy, more power to her. I am just sorry that I spent the money to read about her awakening.
Rating: 1 / 5

The physical part of my relationship with my wife had gone into a dry spell. I’d been looking for ways to spice up my marriage, but hadn’t had much success. And then I came across this amazing book. After reading it, I wasn’t sure what my wife would think, so I left the book out on our bed while I was taking a shower one night and came back to see her not only reading the book, but underlining passages in it. She’d really taken the book to heart and stayed up all night devouring it. We had a talk the next morning over breakfast and I was quite pleased that she wholeheartedly agreed that “seeing other people” would be just the thing to make our marriage stronger. I asked if she really meant it and she said, “Definitely!” and encouraged me to give it a try.

I was so excited about this turn in events, I took the afternoon off and hit the bar at the local airport Hilton. I started by leaving my wedding ring on, telling a variety of attractive women that my wife and I now had an “open marriage” and asked if they cared to take a roll in the hay to celebrate. Pretty much all of them seemed offended by my proposition and blew me off. I then took off my wedding ring and approached some other women pretending I wasn’t married, but that didn’t seem to work either. Unlike my wife and the author of this book, women can be real prudes sometimes.

Anyway, when I came home from work later that day, there were a line of cars parked outside our house and lots of men hanging out in our family room holding numbers like they do at the deli. I asked one of the guys what was going on and one of them said “You mean, you didn’t see that Craigslist personal?” He then showed me a printout of a Craigslist ad (posted earlier that morning) that said “I’m a nasty little caboose who is auditioning engines. Are you man enough to drive my train? First come, first served!” I then saw three men leaving our bedroom getting their clothes on and one of them would go “43, 44, and 45, you’re up next! And she said ‘Bring the wiffle ball bat!’” I tried going upstairs to check on her, but the other guys said “Hey pal, you gotta pick a number and sit down.” When I protested that I lived there, they wouldn’t have any of it, saying that five guys already used that excuse to cut in line. So, I selected a number and I waited. When it came to be my turn (I was number 88), I went up with numbers 86 and 87. By that point, my wife said “Hey number 88, I can only handle two more, so you’ll have to come back later.” After they finished, I revealed that I was in fact number 88, but all my wife said she was exhausted and requested I bring her dinner in bed, which I did, because let’s face it, she looked worn out.

So now we’re at the dawn of an exciting time in our relationship. She’s having a little fun on the side and now I get the chance to, as well. In fact, she told me to stay out as late as I want or even for days or weeks if I like. Am I married to the coolest woman in the world or what?

Rating: 5 / 5