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.
And then it is discovered one of them is involved in just such a relationship.
First, what consenting adults do really should not be anyone's business unless the consenting adult is your or your spouse/BF/GF and then if you are not ok with it, take it up with them.
Not sure about it to being infidelity, since you have approval from your partner to do it.
I grew up in an evangelical environment. Left it. I know for certain that they were the among worst spouses I’ve ever seen. Many of them had affairs and were abusive in private and in public they were the most godly moral people. Give me a break.
I’ve had brief dating stints with some polyamorous girls before. The lifestyle seemed incredibly exhausting to an introvert like me. To each their own but not my cup of tea. You have to be an extreme extrovert to manage it.
She’s thinner than most freaks that engage in this nonsense, but her husband is a typical beta that goes along with this.
I read it differently. I assumed he - who was always working late - was already cheating on her and suggested the "open marriage" so he could feel guilty. I may be on to something as his main fears at the end of the article are that people are going to fear he "pressured her into it."
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The memo has gone out. Three major media publications in the last week have published articles pushing “polyamory.” This is the next frontier in the war on the nuclear family. As some of us predicted 10 years ago. pic.twitter.com/kBr8QZZh5u
War on the nuclear family? Hahaha. Oh brother. Matt Walsh is constantly lamenting the fall of masculinity while simultaneously acting like a triggered drama queen over the dumbest stuff possible.
While my opinion on these things is largely irrelevant, I do want to point out that the term and idea of the "nuclear family" is absolutely a old colonialist idea rooted in Christianity. It was shaped and produced through European cultural customs and national laws that regulate sex and marriage - nearly always through the Christian religion and church. So while I may not be keen to the idea of polyamory myself, I find the people who try to criticize those with different values laughable as they always try to push their ideas on to others.
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).
Yeah, I have only two, 2nd-hand anecdotal observation points on this sort of thing, but both marriages ended for the people I knew who got into polyamory/open relationships. At least one of them involved no kids. The other seems like a really tragic path for the kids involved. Wife and mother of one wants an open relationship, husband/father consents. She gets pregnant by boyfriend, who she declares is her soulmate based on sexual encounters, and wants to have the baby. Husband moves out, divorces her, shares custody of their child. Boyfriend moves in, they have baby, and then that arrangement falls apart and he leaves. Now a single mom with two kids by different fathers who want nothing to do with her. She almost has to lie about the entire situation to any other guy she wants to attract/bang. I don't feel bad for her, she's an adult and could have got counseling for her disorder(s), but the kids didn't sign up for this by being born. Hopefully there's enough evidence for the fathers to be awarded full custody at some point. She's certainly one of the flirtiest women I've ever met, so much so that it put me off and I kept my distance. And no, I'm neither of the fathers, thankfully.