My wife and I have recently opened or marriage to ENM and are starting to explore as individuals. We feel extremely comfortable and have set boundaries and are 100% on the same page. Trust, communicatio and boundaries are a key foundation for us..

Although We feel comfortable and are in full agremeit we are curious how likely is this LS to make a marriage or relationship worse or even fail. Just to clarify we don't want other intimate relationships and still want to be each others one and only, but also want our play partners to be real friends and have an actual relationship just not " INTIMATELY ROMANTIC" (replacement)

For example we want to be able to play solo or together and like I said we absolutely trust each othe, but realize there may be some natural jealousy how likely will that make the other feel bad or shut down.

Another example one person is having more luck than the other and feeling left out.

The main question is how likely is it that a couple goes into this thinking they have it figured out and then as they explore more the actually drift apart and do cath REAL feelings for someone else?

We want to explore and have fun but we definitely don't want to shoot ourselves in the foot and dig our own grave...

Any thoughts. Or suggestions would be great