When You're Poly and Your Husband Isn't ,with Courtney Boyer

Get Schooled Podcast with Marcela Alonso · Sep 14, 2026 · 1h

After 17 years of marriage, Courtney Boyer asked her husband a terrifying question: what if we opened the marriage? She discovered she was polyamorous — he wasn't. He's still monogamous. And they're still together.

Courtney joins Marcela to talk about what really happens when one partner opens a marriage the other didn't ask for. How do you tell your husband of 17 years you need something he doesn't? What does a mono-poly marriage actually look like day to day? And where does purity culture fit into all of it?

Raw, honest, and full of the conversations most couples are too scared to have…