What happens when a relationship hasn’t fully broken down… but it no longer feels alive?

In this episode of The Connection Audit, Kirsten and Blake examine a pattern unfolding quietly in thousands of homes: couples who are exhausted, co-parenting more than connecting, and wondering whether opening the relationship might bring back the spark.

This is a compassionate, clear-eyed conversation about why non-monogamy is not a resuscitation tool. Because when a relationship is already running on silence, low-level conflict, emotional exhaustion, and administrative survival mode, adding more complexity rarely repairs what is missing. It amplifies it.

Together, Kirsten and Blake unpack the cultural myths that set couples up to fail — the pressure of the “everything partner”, the dopamine trap of modern  ...