Uh - did you TOTALLY miss how jealous Jo was of Michael and the idea Michael might be interested in another woman?
Why not merely get divorced if all you want to do is date (screw) other people?
Why get married at all? Alex chose this last option, evidently. The real tragedy is that Jo is so emotionally involved with her own DREAM of what Alex is - rather than the reality. Truman understood the reality of his friend Alex and even tried to inform Jo - but Jo has "stars in her eyes" concerning Alex - and she and Michael have to suffer because of it.
Jo will be sad and upset for some time now over "losing" Alex again - and might even break down this time and tell Michael all about it - at which point Michael will probably leave her.
But Alex will merely fly back to Paris and screw Helen - despite those sad tears of his in the airport.
Despite all the porn out there (like "letters to Penthouse") there are actually very, very few swinging or "open marriage" relationships in the USA. The actual ratio is somewhere around 20,000 (hardcore - spend money on the lifestyle/self-report when polled, etc.) vs 300,000,000. That is far less than 1% - more like 1/10th of 1%.
OTOH somewhere around 50% of married people do cheat at some point during their marriage - and just "coincidentally" about 50% of marriages end in divorce (with cheating and lying - poor communications - as a primary cause of divorce. ;-)
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