Wife Cheats with Strangers with Her Husband's Permission – and Writes a Memoir About It

The state of your marriage - or your fidelity - may not be typical dinnertime conversation, but it is the subject of one woman's new memoir.

Meet author Robin Rinaldi, whose new memoir The Wild Oats Project: One Woman's Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost - is making headlines for its unique approach to tackling a mid-life crisis.

Chronicling her "year of living dangerously," Rinadli recounts her new life as a woman with multiple partners - and a husband at home.

Rinaldi rented a studio apartment during the week and returned home to married life on weekends. She solicited partners for her experiment in open marriage via the website nerve.com and lists intimacy with women (two of her 12 sex partners were women, she says) among the many "firsts" she experienced that year.

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Explaining her reasons for doing it, the freelance journalist recounts her struggle to revive her marriage of 17 years, with her partner who refused her wish to have a baby.

"I suddenly had these urges – physical, emotional – that I could no longer deny," Rinaldi, now 50, says in a video to promote the book. "And it was just like, no more being the good girl!"

"I broke the news to Scott that I wanted an open marriage in early 2008, a few months after his vasectomy. 'I won’t go to my grave with no children and four lovers,' I told him repeatedly. 'I refuse,'" Rinaldi write in a book excerpt published by The New York Post.

Now happy at home with her partner "Alden" (not his real name), one of her hook-ups from nerve.com.

"Five years on, Alden and I are happily living together. It's a regular, monogamous relationship," Rinaldi writes. "As for not having children, I'm at peace with that, too. First I channeled the creativity I would have used to become a mom into my sexuality, and then I channeled it into writing my memoir. As my story shows, there are many different ways in life to find passion and fulfillment."

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