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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

Molly Roden Winter had been married for a decade when, after an argument with her husband one night, she stormed out of the house and found herself in a bar.

There, she started flirting with another man.

"At the end of the night we exchanged numbers, which felt like … a breach of my marital contract," she tells ABC RN's Life Matters.

Listen to the podcast Life Matters is here to help you get a handle on all the important stuff: love, sex, fitness, health, parenting, career, finances and family.

Read more Later, when the man texted and Molly's husband saw the message flash, it prompted a conversation that felt to Molly equally dangerous and exciting.

Could she and her husband rethink the rules of their relationship and re-write their marriage contract?

And what would they tell their kids?

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


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To: DesertRhino

Unfortunately, that summed it up. Perfectly.

Sadly. but perfectly.


21 posted on 06/29/2024 7:35:42 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: alexander_busek
“after an argument with her husband one night, she stormed out of the house and found herself in a bar church at Walmart.”
22 posted on 06/29/2024 7:45:56 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

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThVu_mrQ0FU4nrmnOU39PIDiQPOavGX8xoAw&s

Maybe she could run into a football team. Or a 75-member marching band.

Better yet, perhaps an aircraft carrier returning from a 6-month deployment with like, 5,000 guys on board.


23 posted on 06/29/2024 7:46:00 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: fwdude
"We hope that our relationship can be an example of one of the myriad of ways he can have a healthy, conscious, communicative and loving relationship," Abbey says.

The entire article is filled with this empty, saccharine, made-up psychobabble.

24 posted on 06/29/2024 7:52:55 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: alexander_busek

In that case it wouldn’t necessarily be a jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.


25 posted on 06/29/2024 7:55:25 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: fwdude

Agree to many consider marriage and shacking up the same.

It’s a way out for those who can’t or won’t commit to marriage.


26 posted on 06/29/2024 8:22:54 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SaveFerris

so the problem is the woman cheating. IF her hubby had a side piece you’d be ok with that?


27 posted on 06/29/2024 8:31:26 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: ronniesgal; DesertRhino; fwdude

[so the problem is the woman cheating. IF her hubby had a side piece you’d be ok with that?]

I don’t know how you got THAT from my post.....

If you clicked on the link then you’d know that it was HER comment and all I was addressing was her comment


28 posted on 06/29/2024 8:35:36 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: fwdude

all those extra guys are yer uncles,,,


29 posted on 06/29/2024 8:49:20 AM PDT by Craftmore
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To: fwdude
The answer is easy. Just apply the same principles the LGBTXYZ agenda-driving folks apply.

1. Create an Adultery Pride flag and hang it proudly at your house. Why hide your adultery in the closet? Adultery is, after all, a legitimate and wholesome way of living. It should be celebrated, not hidden or stigmatized.

2. Hold fun activities with your children, such as asking them their preference in adultery partners. Children need to know that Mommy and Daddy sleeping around with other people is actually a bonding experience for the whole family. Nothing says emotional security for your children like breaking your marriage vows.

3. Rage against all those who bring up that "Thou shalt not commit adultery" stuff. Call them bigots and adulteryphobes. God doesn't know what He's talking about, anyway. We're in the enlightened 21st century and have no use for silly ideas like staying faithful to your spouse. Being a faithful and loving spouse? That's crazy talk!

4. Have the activists disguised as school teachers put the Adultery Pride flag in their classrooms and talk to their students about the joys of cheating on their spouses when they become adults. "Everyone is doing it!"

5. Hold Adultery Pride parades. Be sure to invite children to attend.

Do these five easy steps, and you can be sure your children will be well-adjusted and secure in their lives while you and your spouse are out on the prowl for hookups.

The above is extreme sarcasm, of course.

30 posted on 06/29/2024 9:30:40 AM PDT by Luna (Evil will not triumph. God is at the helm.)
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To: fwdude

Two people celebrating their groins as their god will not love the other, only demand, seek elsewhere, the pinch of incense to their god on their terms.

Only God is the god in a perfect marriage as God designed it entirely possible for each of us in reality.


31 posted on 06/29/2024 9:33:01 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Jonty30

Exactly


32 posted on 06/29/2024 9:52:23 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Yes


33 posted on 06/29/2024 9:52:45 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Tax-chick

They could tell their children, “Look, I am fond of you, but spicing up my sex life is more important to me. Sorry, I had to break your heart and ruin your life, but it really is all about me.”


34 posted on 06/29/2024 9:56:45 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Bigg Red

Yeah, pretty much.


35 posted on 06/29/2024 1:10:14 PM 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
They haven't told their son they're non-monogamous...

They have now.

36 posted on 06/29/2024 1:48:19 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: fwdude

Child: Who is that?
Mommy: That is er... your ‘uncle’ Bob. He is staying over for a sleepover.
Child: Who are the other men that show up here?
Mommy: You have many uncles dear, now go to bed. I am going to bed myself.
Child: Thinking silently “mommy sure likes sleepovers”.


37 posted on 06/30/2024 2:06:10 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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