Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

The expectations are endless: your one-and-only is your soul mate, the person with whom you are 100 percent sexually and emotionally compatible, your "other half" with whom you share the same values about everything. He or she will fulfill all your needsphysical, emotional, psychological, affectionate, financial, romantic, sexual, and spiritual. If you are truly in love, you will never have any desire for anything from anyone else.

There's this part of me that's still dealing with that "as a woman you're not complete unless you have somebody" cultural thing.

Everyone does nonmonogamy differently. Each story and each relationship is unique.