Opened

De: Courtney Boyer

Narrado por: Courtney Boyer

Vulnerable, provocative, and laugh-out-loud honest, Opened is more than a story about non-monogamy—it’s about what happens when a woman stops asking for permission to want more.

Courtney Boyer was a therapist and relationship coach who spent years teaching others how to communicate, connect, and love. But behind closed doors, her own marriage was suffocating. After years of rejection, loneliness, and shrinking herself to fit the mold of “perfect wife and mother,” she makes a bold, terrifying proposal at her seventeenth wedding anniversary: What if we opened the marriage?

What begins as a desperate bid to save her relationship becomes a raw, unflinching journey of self-discovery. From deconstructing purity culture to navigating desire, body image, and patriarchy, Courtney’s memoir peels back every layer of conditioning to reveal the woman she was always meant to be.

This isn’t a guidebook. It’s an intimate reckoning with marriage, motherhood, shame, and the price of finally choosing yourself. Courtney’s journey is messy, sexy, and most of all, real. And it just might make you question everything you’ve been taught about what women are allowed to want.

If you’ve ever wondered what it costs to silence your own needs—or what it takes to finally claim them—this book will meet you there. Honest, sensual, and deeply human, this memoir is a rallying cry for anyone who’s ever wondered: Is this all there is?

©2025 Courtney Boyer (P)2025 Courtney Boyer

Raw story

Courtney has given an amazing memoir of her journey of being polyamorous. She also wrote how her family reacted and some of the struggles involving them. Loved the stories as well!

A must read for anyone who thinks monogamy may not be required for a healthy, long-term relationship :)

This audible book made me laugh and cry. The author is so sincere in her search for authentic relationships outside her marriage. And I love how she's able to describe so many exchanges with the men she meets along the way in such detail. And how brave she and her husband are for telling their children the truth. That scene made me cry. This is a must read for anyone who's either in an open relationship or contemplating one. I've been in one for over a decade and have yet to tell my children. And yes, she tells the truth about how hard it was for her husband, but also about how he came around. Absolutely loved it!

The sadness and immaturity of the author’s lifestyle

I disliked how the author emasculated her husband, who appears to be a very likable and good husband and father and the psychological damage she has imposed on him and their children