What's your take on open marriages ?
To continue to love someone outside marriage requires an ability to compartmentalise emotions, which perhaps eludes most people.
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
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@samueltyler2 It has to be the future rather than fantasy or reality .
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
Has to be the future, how and why?
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It is hard for someone conservative to fathom the dimensions of polyamory. For many people, though, polyamory is not curious at all — it’s just another way of organising life and love.
We live in a social system that treats monogamy as the only natural, legitimate, and inevitable relationship style. This means that most of us have some degree of pro-monogamy bias that encourages us to think of monogamous, heterosexual relationship as an unequivocal social and relational good.
In the age of social media and apps that encourage adults to explore their sexuality with less inhibitions, maybe it is time to think the unthinkable, that some people who are in polyamorous relationships are not deviant psychopaths!
We live in a social system that treats monogamy as the only natural, legitimate, and inevitable relationship style. This means that most of us have some degree of pro-monogamy bias that encourages us to think of monogamous, heterosexual relationship as an unequivocal social and relational good.
In the age of social media and apps that encourage adults to explore their sexuality with less inhibitions, maybe it is time to think the unthinkable, that some people who are in polyamorous relationships are not deviant psychopaths!
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
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@samueltyler2 Perhaps it is the very concept, and constraint, of monogamy that has led to a resurgence in polyamory. There is also an element called fun and self-discovery on which we should not be closing our doors.
Open marriage is a marriage or relationship in which both partners agree that each may have sexual relations with others. It acknowledges a primary relationship.
Open marriage is a marriage or relationship in which both partners agree that each may have sexual relations with others. It acknowledges a primary relationship.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@SW-User yes, I have read about it.