An Open Relationship is Not a Relationship

Celebrities are free to have their opinions and Monique expressed her approval for an open relationship on the Barbara Walters Show. A relationship that is open is not a relationship at all. At the award show, after Monique's acceptance speech, one could tell that she was deeply in love with her husband. It may be a way of keeping her husband and that is why Monique agreed to an open relationship. Monique's reason is all selfishness as is her husband for agreeing to the open relationship. Monique wanted to keep her man even if she had to share him with other women. Monique's husband wanted to have Monique as a wife and still have over women which is selfishness.

Love transcends having to share the person who is loved. Relationships are about two people with shared experiences and two people only. It is the bond between the two people in all genre's including sexually that makes the relationship strong. The sharing of one's wife or husband with someone else while in a relationship wipes out any marriage vows of forsaking all others. Open relationship are not sacred in a marriage.

Except for the legal ramifications of marriage and the divorce that could still happen in open marriages, an open relationship is a drawback to the swinging days of the past. Swinging involved wives and husbands shared each other willingly in a party like atmosphere. An open relationship is not a real relationship but an orgy or a fetish that is allowed to play out without any repercussions and that is not good.

A panelist on the View television show said that an open relationship is an open invitation to a divorce which is true. Permissiveness with one's body who has been betrothed to another is nothing more than an invitation to cheat and to know and to be aware of the cheating.