Designer Relationships
A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships

As a queer person I feel missed by the book. It probably does a good job at introducing straight couples to ways of opening their relationship and to explore beyond the culturally hegemonic concept of straight monogamy. But for someone who lives in an environment where most people I know are in some......more

There are more and more books all the time on relationship styles, polyamory, open relationships, etc. What sets this book apart is the authors are not endorsing one "style" over others. This book encourages us to go mindfully into whatever relationship we would like to have. They give us the tools......more

This book reads like a very brief cheerleading session for open relationships. While the last two chapters had some good advice and a few good questions to discuss in any kind of relationship, most of the book was spent defending open or non-traditional relationships from misconceptions which could......more

Not much in this book felt "new" after having read a handful of the books they list in their "other resources" guide in the back, but in the authors' introduction, they said they wanted this to be the kind of book you could pick up in an airport and read during the flight and come away having learne......more

This book does a really great job talking about the conscious ways relationships can be structured around monogamy/nonmonogamy and the many facets that includes. I really appreciate how it breaks down some different kinds of monogamy and acknowledges that these are also valid options for relationshi......more