it didn't matter about that 'open relationship.'

[sitifan]

When he found out I had kissed that guy in the kitchen it didn't matter about that 'open relationship.' (Quest for Love, Elisabeth Elliot)

https://books.google.com.tw/books?i...ter about that 'open relationship.' "&f=false

In the above sentence, what does "it" refer to?

 

[GoesStation]

It's a dummy pronoun. "It didn't matter about that 'open relationship'" = what we'd agreed about that "open relationship" didn't matter.

 

[Tarheel]

Do you understand the meaning of the sentence?

 

[sitifan]

Do you understand the meaning of the sentence?

I don't know what that "open relationship" means.

 

[tedmc]

I think it is a relationship that is out in the open (opposite of private), which the people associated with them know.

 

[GoesStation]

It means the relationship is non-exclusive; the partners say they won't mind if the other has sexual relations with other people.

 

[tedmc]

It means the relationship is non-exclusive; the partners say they won't mind if the other has sexual relations with other people.

I didn't know that openness has only to do with sexuality.

 

[Rover_KE]

I didn't know that openness has only to do with sexuality.

Nobody said it has only to do with sexuality.

 

[Tarheel]

You have to understand what an open relationship is to understand that sentence. Even though they had an open relationship, when he saw her "kissing that guy in the kitchen" he still got jealous.