Abstract
When Open Marriage was published in 1972, it was quickly given to the status of pop sociology. Two years later, the increasingly widespread acceptance of its premises calls for us to look at it with renewed interest. Several years ago Jane Loevinger and her associates developed a method for measuring ego development. A description of her adult stages of development appears to shed much light on how open marriage may be understood in terms of personal growth and development. This paper points out a potential intersect between marriage counseling and developmental psychology. In so doing, it raises some questions about the possible widespread adoption of open marriage and its subsequent problems for marriage counseling.
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