a successful corporate trainer and relationship and intimacy coach whose practice includes young couples. Two years ago, after reading my book Polyamory: The New Love without Limits, Sanjeev decided to take the leap and come out to his family. While westerners are often apprehensive about family reactions to polyamory, family is far more important to Indians. Fortunately for Sanjeev, his family was concerned but lovingly accepting and even curious. "Initially the journey looked dangerous, but when I embraced it, it set me free. The path was laced with deep confrontation and sometimes , but now when I look back, it was all worth it," he says.

Sanjeev fantasized about having an open marriage while still in high school, long before he'd ever heard of polyamory. When he shared hisideas with his friends, they ridiculed him, and his girlfriend was furious at the very idea. Realizing that for the people he knew marriage meant monogamy, or cheating, he decided not to marry. Now he's happy to be able to suggest polyamory as an option when working with couples where a secret affair is on the horizon.

I arrived in Bombay a few weeks after the 2008 terrorist attack that left residents and tourists alike in a state of shock. Sandeep, an Indian man in his early forties who runs a small consulting firm in Bombay, was still reeling and that his immediate family was unharmed. Sandeep has been married to Leela for fifteen years, and they have a six-year-old daughter. Theirs was an arranged marriage, as is still