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Posted on 07/27/2013 12:15:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
No.
And not because of moral reasons, it's simply a matter of practicality. I've never seen a polygamous relationship in which every participant was happy and content. Because of my research into alternative lifestyles, I actually know a lot of people who are in polygamous relationships (there are support groups for that, you know). I don't think it is immoral, as long as all parties involved are consenting adults.
However in practice, such a relationship requires way too much energy to maintain, and one or two people are always left feeling unhappy, undervalued, not needed, and not loved. Human beings are selfish and possessive, especially when they're in love. Very few people are capable of sharing their loved ones with other people, even under the pretense that you receive love from the other person. This is especially true if the polygamous relationship is 1 male + multiple females or 1 female + multiple males. One will undoubtedly become the favorite, and the other will end up resentful and feeling depressed.
An ideal situation, which most polygamous relationships I knew were trying to achieve, is somewhat a "network" of love, instead of a pyramid. For example, in a relationship with one male and three females, if the love exists only between the male and each female, it's not going to work. It has to be male and female, and female and female, in other words, everyone needs to love everyone.
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hold on- I’ll ask my wife if it’s OK
I’ll be right back (I hope)
Not on your life. I married once, divorced many years ago, raised two sons alone, and have been happy in the solitude my old age has afforded me.
I’d do everything that’s illegal now were it legal!
So, marry the MIL too!
My wife of fifty-five years passed away May 30 of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. While she was in hospice care here at home, she said, "I don't want you to get married again. If you do, I'll come back and haunt you." I told her I didn't have another fifty-five years to train another one. I miss her every day.
Many married men have a wife, a mistress and multiple one night stands. Actually a polygamist has a stronger moral position since he has made an open commitment and is not hypocritical.
As many here predicted — the “gay’ marriage advocates who promised that they wanted nothing to do with polygamy or pedophilia have turned to the next attacked on civilized society.
No thank you. The sex part is overrated
And where will all the shoes go?
-PJ
“Legal” has nothing to do with what is moral, or practical, or emotionally satisfying.
Only in some fantasy entertained by a megalomaniac would it even contain any internal logic. And those who are caught in this web of fantasy are truly enslaved.
Not to get off-topic, but these seem to be the very characteristics that are integral to the whole concept of Islam - the gratification of wide-ranging fantasies for a very few favored individuals, who maintain their supremacy by threat of deadly force and intimidation of lesser entities.
No! It causes multi-mother-in-law syndrome!
Take away the man's wealth and power, or try a polyandrous relationship with multiple men to one woman, and things go south in a big hurry.
Pass.
Let me tell you about my identical Thai twins sometime.
Oh, he!! no. One is too many. :-)
Of course gmta.
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Methinks that tale is told only by FReep mail.
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The Cockney rhyming-slang for ‘wife’ is ‘trouble and strife’. Why would you want to multiply the trouble and strife in your life (see, poetry).
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