Discussion: We are a 50-year-old couple who advocate an open marriage. We sleep in the same apartment, in separate rooms.

Open marriage is considered more advanced, but it is essential to be aware of its cost in the form of loss of jealousy, interpersonal connection, and especially mutual commitment in illnesses and crises. Couples who sleep in the same bed and have regular sex divorce less, communicate better, forgive each other more, and even live longer! In the modern world, where about half of the population aged 50 and over has at least one chronic disease, a ratio that increases dramatically over 60, this is not a theoretical question.