Beyond Open Marriage
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Marriage as we know it is failing. The current divorce rate in America is staggering: one out of every two marriages ends in divorce.
When those couples first fell head over heels in love with each other, courted and finally married, could they have been off base about choosing a lifetime partner?
Or could it be that they were trying too hard to live up to a marriage ideal left over from another age?
Is thre a solution to the dovirce epidemic sweeping America?
Beyond Open Marriage is an honest, no axes-to-grind account of how some couples are trying to make marriage work.
The authors, Ulla and Richard J. Anobile, approach the subject not just as professional journalists, but as a couple who are intimately acquainted with the reality of living a nontraditional marriage. Their research for this controversial book took them into the heartland of America for an ubiased look at the changes some couples are quirtly bringing to a troubled institutiom.
For the first time, they report on a well-researched and volatile theory of open sexuality that may not only be the key to the future of marriage, but also an important mechanism for societal change. Their astounding interview with John and Barbara Williamson, the founders of the famous Sandstone retreat, sheds light upon a simple solution for the reversal of the self-destructive tendencies of modern man. A key to survival.
Finally, the Anobiles offer a candid account of their own six-year marriage and how it evolved from a traditonal marriage into an open marriage and now a group marriage.
BEYOND OPEN MARRIAGE is potent.
It's real. Nothing is made up. The people you will meet in this book exist here and now in America. They believe in commitment, in marriage and the importance of full, human relationships. And in the family.
Their desires to live happily ever after made them dare to create marriages tailored to theor needs rather to tradition.
Ulla Anobile & Richard J. Anobile (1979). Beyond Open Marriage. New York: A & W Publishers, Inc. Hardcover. 275p. ISBN-10: 0-894479-029-3.
