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What It’s Like to Be the Other Guy in an Open Marriage

I didn't want to be a homewrecker. But that's how a lot of people see it.

Illustration by Joe Frontel

The room feels dead.

Almost everything's packed up in carefully labeled boxes. The wedding picture that hung on the wall of the living room is conspicuously absent. A tower of empty beer cans increases in height every few minutes.