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How do open relationships work when you're a parent? These non-monogamous couples explain
ABC Australia ^ | 27 Jun 2024 | By Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Bec Zajac

Posted on 06/29/2024 6:08:38 AM PDT by fwdude

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What a surprise. When you legally destroy marriage, marriage gets destroyed.
1 posted on 06/29/2024 6:08:38 AM PDT by fwdude
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It works by setting your children up for destruction as they never experience the level of stability that you threw away for your licentiousness.


2 posted on 06/29/2024 6:13:21 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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How do open relationships work? They don’t.


3 posted on 06/29/2024 6:15:11 AM PDT by xp38
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They don’t work. They’re not relationships.

Work for children? If you can’t be committed and faithful to your spouse, you are hardly someone who is going to be loyal to your own children...fidelity is part of being a responsible parent.


4 posted on 06/29/2024 6:15:36 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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And what would they tell their kids?

They could tell their kids, "We would feel terrible if we forced you to bear the guilt of knowing that, out of concern for you, we were forced for pass up our opportunity for personal fulfilment."

That puts all the responsibility on the children and lets the adults continue to feel good about themselves, which is really all that matters, right?

5 posted on 06/29/2024 6:20:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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Not to mention the potential dangerous diseases that can be brought into the family from the outside. STD’s are through the stratosphere in this new milieu of sexual anarchy, and you are playing with fire by playing around in an open sewer.


6 posted on 06/29/2024 6:21:30 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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Most of these couples are admitting that they are NOT telling their kids, at least not the small ones. They know inherently that what they are doing is wrong.


7 posted on 06/29/2024 6:22:56 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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they are NOT telling their kids, at least not the small ones

Well, that's something. They'll have to tell them when they split up, though, as philandering couples always do unless there's a political reason to stay together.

8 posted on 06/29/2024 6:25:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: fwdude

Anti-family Marxists promote this crap.


9 posted on 06/29/2024 6:28:00 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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They could tell their kids, "We would feel terrible if we forced you to bear the guilt of knowing that, out of concern for you, we were forced for pass up our opportunity for personal fulfilment." That puts all the responsibility on the children and lets the adults continue to feel good about themselves, which is really all that matters, right?

^this

10 posted on 06/29/2024 6:28:54 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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“after an argument with her husband one night, she stormed out of the house and found herself in a bar.”

There’s nothing like going straight out of the frying pan and into the fire to solve your problems at home. /s


11 posted on 06/29/2024 6:37:02 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
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Really bad idea.


12 posted on 06/29/2024 6:45:20 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Gender dysphoria is now a federally protected mental illness.)
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Listen to the devious language these sluts use.

"what's most important for children is that they are getting their emotional needs met.”

Negativity around non-monogamous relationship structures comes "mostly from mono-normativity, which is this idea that anything monogamous is the natural [and] the best way.”

They haven't told their son they're non-monogamous, because "the ins and outs of our marriage are irrelevant to him"

“Even as we were just kind of dipping in our toes, I felt like I needed to keep it a secret. And secrets usually suggest shame."

It's not family structure or relationship structure that determines [what's] harmful to children.”

“As he grows older, we will share with him …that love can look different for everyone."

Doesn’t this all sound familiar from about 10 years ago?

13 posted on 06/29/2024 6:45:45 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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If they’re doing it away from the home and coming home at night do the kids have to know? They don’t have to find out with emails and discreet texts.

Not approving . I’m just saying it works for Bill and Hillary. Those people are out there.


14 posted on 06/29/2024 6:48:12 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Hey kids, for the last time, keep it down. Mommy is riding her friend from the bar. You’re making it awkward!


15 posted on 06/29/2024 6:48:56 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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Evil is the word to describe this behavior


16 posted on 06/29/2024 6:50:23 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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“after an argument with her husband one night, she stormed out of the house and found herself in a bar church.”

Now let your imagination continue the story.

Regards,

17 posted on 06/29/2024 7:03:42 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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It’s always children who suffer most.


18 posted on 06/29/2024 7:03:59 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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why would they tell their kids anything???
It’s nobody’s beeswax-no one needs to know your personal business.


19 posted on 06/29/2024 7:06:40 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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she stormed out of the house and found herself in a bar

As if it were totally random, and she might as easily have ended up at a McDonald's or a used-car lot. Sure.

20 posted on 06/29/2024 7:19:18 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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