An intimate memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that
follows a happily married mother as she explores sex and
relationships outside her marriage • “This book about open
marriage is going to blow up your group chat”—The Washington Post
Molly
Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart,
who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’
bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At
a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her
husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that Stewart
encouraged her to accept.
So
began Molly’s unexpected open marriage and, with it, a
life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating
sites, enters into passionate flings, and has sex in hotels and
public places around New York City. For Molly it’s a mystery why
she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions, fueled by the
discovery that her parents had an open marriage, too, she grapples
with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person.
Molly
and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules:
Don’t date an ex. Don’t date someone in the neighborhood. Don’t
go to anyone’s home. And above all, don’t fall in love. In the
years that follow, they break most of their rules, even the most
important one. They grapple with jealousy, insecurity, and doubts,
all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their
love for each other? Can they make the impossible work?
More
is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant
reflections on motherhood, daughterhood, marriage, and
self-fulfillment. With warmth, humor, and style, Molly Roden Winter
delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most
authentic self.