111 Gründe, offen zu lieben

A hymn to open relationships, polyamory, and friendship! The updated and expanded new edition with eleven bonus reasons! The traditional concept of a relationship between two people who are enough for each other in heart, bed, and mind for a lifetime is no longer suitable for everyone in today's world. Each person has many different needs that a single partner often cannot fulfill. Opening up a relationship is a flexible alternative for those who want to share their lives with more than one person. Cornelia Jönsson and Simone Maresch demonstrate in their book, through 111 short chapters, that it is possible to love without limiting each other, and that living more than one relationship simultaneously is not only possible but enriches the lives of all involved. The topic of love has predominantly been lived in an erotic-romantic exclusivity. "Just the two of us, forever," say two people who meet and no longer want to be without each other. However, hardly anyone today is completely satisfied with just one person in their heart, bed, and mind for a lifetime. Love is not a cake that gets smaller the more you share. For those who find one partner insufficient, opening their relationship is a flexible alternative: the societal gates to life and desire, as one wishes, are wide open. Traditional relationship values shatter like glass against the unwillingness to compromise. It is possible to love without limiting each other. It is realistic to live more than one relationship at the same time. The book: Florian loves Annika, Annika loves Florian and Margit, Margit loves Annika and Johannes, Johannes loves Margit and many other women. Cem loves no one but lives with all of them. Annika is pregnant with a child that will astonishingly have many parents. Love can sometimes be a battlefield, and changing relationships is exhausting, but overall, it is worth it.