I'll be 8 weeks pregnant on wednesday, I've been with my husband for 6 years and we have two other children plus step daughter from his previous relationship, so this is my third pregnancy, our fourth child together.

A little back story. I met my husband when I was 18 years old, and it was instant love and infatuation. My husband, at the time, was 27 years old and had a 1 year old daughter from a serious relationship that had just ended a few months prior to meeting me. I was so insanely in love with this man and gave him everything I had and devoted myself to him 100%.

Before I knew it we began reproducing, the years passed and the babies came (my sweet boys!) But along the way, I felt like I lost track of myself, I literally became psychotic along the way, my husband and I had no lives outside of each other, we were together constantly and the fighting was increasing.

I reached my limit. Something had to change, or either I would end up killing myself, ending my relationship with the only person in my life whose been there constantly since day 1, or both.

So, I contacted old friends from high school and started reaching out to them, and getting out of my comfort zone, which was being around adults again. It was so refreshing, I was feeling like my old self again, but then, I started thinking about all the things I missed out on in my youth, to be with this man, and it made me sad, maybe I made a mistake settling so young, maybe my husband wasn't the man for me, but there was no way I could leave him.

The thing about my relationship with my husband, is I have 1 rule that I stick by no matter what, no matter what's going on in my life, how confusing my thoughts are, however horrible of a thing I've done, I will NEVER lie to my husband. I am 100% honest with this man at all times (save for joking around, surprises, things like that).

I tell him exactly how I'm feeling and we talk a while, I cannot say enough great things about this man, he is so insanely supportive and loves me so much. He came up with the idea of trying an open relationship, we talked about it a long time and came to the decision, that it was worth trying.

Fast forward to now. Over the summer I met this guy. He is the sweetest, I have absolutely no desire to be in a relationship with this man, but he's become such a great friend, I love being around him and he just loves me to death too, he knows I'm married, and as weird as it sounds, we have a fantastic friendship, that crosses over into physical, but we have complete respect for it being just that. My husband knows everything about this relationship.

Now I'm 8 weeks pregnant. They both know and are both happy. My husband says that no matter the outcome, it's his baby and he's happy and my friend is excited but so nervous, I couldn't be happier :).

I'd like to hear what your thoughts are on open marriages, do you think they work?