Many husbands and wives dream of achieving freedom by mutually agreeing to sleep with strangers, love interests at work, or a celebrity they meet by happenstance in a hotel bar or elevator.

How many actually make an open marriage work?

Emma is reluctant when her husband, Justin, proposes an open marriage. She is fully invested in him and their three daughters, but he has itchy feet and yearns to tuck them under the duvet of other women.

Diving into an open marriage before discussing boundaries, Justin won’t take no for an answer. Emma tried to warn him using an age-old proverb.

“Be careful what you wish for, honey.”

This story was developed using an excellent writer’s prompt on my Substack from a friend, reader, and fellow writer, John Elliot.