Abstract: This dissertation was a qualitative investigation of women who maintained consensually nonmonogamous relationships. Nine women ranging in age from twenty six to forty seven years old participated in the study. All of the women maintained at least one romantic/sexual relationship with a man and self identified as consensually nonmonogamous at the time of the study. The women completed demographic and lifestyle questionnaires designed for this study and participated in a semistructured interview. The interviews were audio taped, transcribed and analyzed for themes as outlined in Maykut and Moorehouse's (1994) constant comparative method. Twelve major and five minor themes were found in this study. The major themes found were as follows: all nonmonogamy is on a spectrum, jealousy comes up occasionally but is not a big problem, jealousy is dealt with through communication, children can handle and benefit from exposure to the lifestyle, they are well received by others when they out themselves, the move to a nonmonogamous lifestyle was an easy one, communication is very important, polyamory is an orientation, time is a major limiting factor, they are also into kink, these women are highly sexual, they often have an antiestablishment attitude. The five minor themes were as follows: honesty is important, acquiring language is a large step, their mother was a strong figure in the home, self definition of highly sexual was poorly related to nonmonogamy, friends were more important than family. A discussion of the integration of these results with current literature concludes the study.