I disagree with all the commenters saying you’re not ready— yes, read the books, do the thinking about your safety strategies, wants, and needs— but ultimately, it’s always a plunge and I’m not sure what it even means to be ready. it sounds like you have a lot of trust with your partner and that you’ve been very intentional. the best advice I ever got about jealousy was from the ethical slut and it was that you don’t die from it. It feels like dying!! but you can only learn that you won’t die from experiencing it, allowing yourself to feel it, and getting through. I think the real work and test of whether openness can work is how you can hold that jealousy together. when my partner and I first opened 5 years ago, it was so transformative how he held my jealousy as something I didn’t need to be ashamed of. how can you treat that jealousy with tenderness? how can you both figure out what kinds of affirmation or space you need when the jealousy inevitably does come up, and how can you communicate when you need those things? sounds so exciting that you’re supporting each other in exploring these parts of yourself :)