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You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
Some people can be married, and hold extra marital affairs for long periods of time. How do people do that?
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People can stay married but have long-term romantic or sexual relationships outside the marriage for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the partners in the marriage have arranged an open relationship, in which they agree to be allowed to seek intimacy and love outside of their primary relationship. Other couples engage in an emotional affair—talking endlessly about one another while engaged in a separate romantic relationship or casual affair, to maintain connections and a strong emotional bond. For some couples, this can even mean having a polyamorous open marriage arrangement.