CALL ME SNAKE

Last weekend, at a kid’s 7th birthday party, I met a nice guy–the father of another 7-year-old–who’s married with children but in an “open relationship.” Maybe that’s more common these days than I suppose, but it strikes me as a real blast from the past, something I used to run across more 20 or 30 years ago. In fact, I can’t remember hearing about an open marriage since the 1980s (though I certainly have heard about infidelities). For some guys, I can imagine that an open arrangement might seem like the best of both worlds. But to me it just seems too risky. I can imagine all kinds of things that could go wrong, especially with children in the picture. Which is why I’ve never broached the subject with my wife and probably never will…