This has existed for THOUSANDS of years, it’s literally in the Bible/Torah/Quran. This is nothing new. Is it because this article features a woman that you’re so up in arms? If it were a man, it would be tolerable?
Literally nothing new. You have Mormons in this country that still practice it.
This isn't an interest story, its a PR piece. Penguin RandomHouse, which is publishing her memoir, spends millions of dollars a year getting articles like this published. Basically anytime you see the nyt or wsj or whoever writing about a book, it's most likely an advertisement paid by the publisher.
Sex is personal, and this really isn't anyone else's business. But she's advertising it, so it's fair game.
How to say this...hmmm...well, it played on network TV, so let me try without softening it. When the film "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" was a huge success, comedian David Spade gave the older woman who had a fling with a younger man (who eventually left her after she found out he was gay) everything she deserved by calling the film, "How Stella Got Her Tube Packed."
The sequel “How Stella got Syphilis” was a surprising box office flop.
This has existed for THOUSANDS of years, it’s literally in the Bible/Torah/Quran. This is nothing new. Is it because this article features a woman that you’re so up in arms? If it were a man, it would be tolerable?
Literally nothing new. You have Mormons in this country that still practice it.
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The difference though is that today the right-wing extremists believe that it is their right & duty to tell everyone how they should live their lives.
I read the article. A woman chose a non-traditional life and how has now written a book about it, and the article describes what's in it. I didn't read anything that promoted or celebrated her decision. If anything, it seemed to indicate that the average married person who has daydreamt about an open marriage would read this book and find that it's an exhausting, difficult and complicated lifestyle.
Sounds more like this lady had (has) a sex addiction and is trying to intellectualize it into something more meaningful by calling it by a different name. I know there are people out there who want to keep having the thrill of a new relationship/dating, etc. after getting married and do the "open marriage" thing. But this lady was getting into some weird stuff that went well beyond what is expected of a healthy romantic relationship (read the article for the gory details).
If you do not have kids, whatever floats your boat. Get married and spend Friday night cruising the bars looking to hook up with someone new. But if you have kids, you need to take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself whether taking time away from your family to go find some other guy to smash with is really something that has no impact on your kids (it does).
If you do not have kids, whatever floats your boat. Get married and spend Friday night cruising the bars looking to hook up with someone new. But if you have kids, you need to take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself whether taking time away from your family to go find some other guy to smash with is really something that has no impact on your kids (it does).
If you do not have kids, whatever floats your boat. Get married and spend Friday night cruising the bars looking to hook up with someone new. But if you have kids, you need to take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself whether taking time away from your family to go find some other guy to smash with is really something that has no impact on your kids (it does).
QFE
For those that didn't know (and I was among them), QFE stands for Quoted for Emphasis).
I read the article and the User Comments that followed the NYTs article, and quite a few, if not most, commenters mentioned concern over how this is going to impact her children. The concern was not only how the extra-marital affairs drew her attention away from the family, but how they would be affected learning of their mother's actions.
Digusting. I can't condone any degradations in the nuclear family unit. Growing up with a single parent is painful. We opened the door with homosexuality. Smaller things like this have followed and soon the things that follow could be much worse.
I think you'd better look in the member since you appear to be a member of "Let's Run - Away From Who We Really Are" - it's okay - there are a lot of dual-income gay families out there who offer stability and love at home. My nieces are both in these family units, happily married with kids, and reading your comments doesn't offend me - it just makes me sad you can't live the life you want without such deeply-ingrained guilt impulses. Break free, my friend.