What are the boundaries of an open marriage? And what are the boundaries of an open marriage when your wife’s boyfriend has an accident that puts him in a coma? Do you introduce yourself to the hospital workers as the patient’s girlfriend’s husband? Wayne Scott and his wife, Elizabeth, have a “creative arrangement,” as Wayne puts it in his Modern Love essay. They share the children, the cats and the mortgage, but they have permission to see other people romantically. On today’s episode, we hear Wayne’s story about an accident that tested the parameters of their marriage, and we talk to Wayne and Elizabeth about how they have navigated their relationship in the years since.
Love now.
And did you fall in love last time?
Love was stronger than anything.
You love for the love love.
And they love you more than anything.
There's still love.
Love.
I'm Dan Jones from the New York Times.
And I'm Mia Lee.
This is the modern love podcast.
This week's essay really broke open for me, the idea of what a marriage can contain and how traditional boundaries don't necessarily have to apply, and how actually.
Expanding those boundaries can help your marriage and strengthen your bond with your spouse.
The essay is called two open marriages in one small room.
It's written by Wayne Scott and read by Eduardo Ballarini.
I want to see the body, said my twelve year old son, Miles.
He and I were sitting in our minivan outside of the hospital.
Miles, it's not the body, I said.
You only say the body when a person is dead.
Eric's still Eric.
He just had a terrible accident.