Reddit reviews What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir

http://www.amazon.com/What-Doing-While-Were-Breeding/dp/0804137609

>Kristin Newman spent much of her twenties and thirties buying dresses to wear to her friends' weddings and baby showers. Not ready to settle down and in need of an escape from her fast-paced job as a sitcom writer, Kristin instead traveled the world, often alone, for several weeks each year. In addition to falling madly in love with the planet, Kristin fell for many attractive locals, men who could provide the emotional connection she wanted without costing her the freedom she desperately needed.
>Kristin introduces readers to the Israeli bartenders, Finnish poker players, sexy Bedouins, and Argentinean priests who helped her transform into "Kristin-Adjacent" on the road–a slower, softer, and, yes, sluttier version of herself at home. Equal parts laugh-out-loud storytelling, candid reflection, and wanderlust-inspiring travel tales, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding is a compelling debut that will have readers rushing to renew their passports.

Gonna see if my library has this now.

We started seeing each other as fwb and became monogamous later on. So openness was always something we knew the other was interested in. Having been connected to poly and open couples and triads through tumblr, it never seemed too alien. That, and she had spoken favorably of the book What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding and explained its premise of living a non-married lifestyle full of enjoyment and chasing their own choices — and I responded favorably any time it came up.

How It Cane Up: she actually just brought up, ‘heeyy so have you ever thought about being open?’ one night, out of the blue and we hashed out our thoughts and limits. What made me okay with it? Knowing that she has desires and that I do too. I love her and never want to extinguish that lust for life that she and I have

Haven't read yet, but this one got recommended to me:
What I was Doing While You Were Breeding

What I was doing while you were breeding by Kristin Newman

“ Kristin Newman spent much of her twenties and thirties buying dresses to wear to her friends' weddings and baby showers. Not ready to settle down and in need of an escape from her fast-paced job as a sitcom writer, Kristin instead traveled the world, often alone, for several weeks each year. In addition to falling madly in love with the planet, Kristin fell for many attractive locals, men who could provide the emotional connection she wanted without costing her the freedom she desperately needed.
Kristin introduces readers to the Israeli bartenders, Finnish poker players, sexy Bedouins, and Argentinean priests who helped her transform into "Kristin-Adjacent" on the road–a slower, softer, and, yes, sluttier version of herself at home. Equal parts laugh-out-loud storytelling, candid reflection, and wanderlust-inspiring travel tales, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding is a compelling debut that will have readers rushing to renew their passports “

https://www.amazon.com/What-Doing-While-Were-Breeding/dp/0804137609/ref=nodl_