From the secret swirls of lust and a mother’s guilt to navigating the world of open marriages, one Park Slope mother is bearing it all in a new memoir.
Molly Roden Winter, 51, first delved into polyamory in 2008 after meeting a man named Matt in a bar after a hard day, when all she felt her life was whittled down to being the “Wiper of Noses, the Doer of Dishes, [and] the Nag in Residence,” she revealed in her book “More: A Memoir of Open Marriage.”
The English teacher and her husband Stewart, to whom she dedicated her tome, opened up their marriage nine years in, after Winter came home that fateful night after meeting Matt and telling the composer about her flirtatious evening.
Quite to her surprise, Stewart encouraged her to go for the young man, and in return, had asked to sleep with his ex — thus beginning their long tale of polyamory, including all the bad sex, jealousy, couples therapy, and finally, when their children found out.
She opens her memoir with the moment her elder son Daniel, then 13, found his father’s online dating profile and called Roden Winter while she was in Houston to tell her his father was cheating.