how do you guys feel about this? what if it is not a mutual feeling in a relationship? What can a couple do to satisfy these feelings without truly acting out on them?
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What's the point in being married?
how do you guys feel about this? what if it is not a mutual feeling in a relationship? What can a couple do to satisfy these feelings without truly acting out on them?
thanks
What's the point in being married?
What's the point in being married?
to establish lines of inheritance and provide for potential offspring, for starters
Sharing all of the other great things in life. It all makes for a very special relationship.
Are people who are unmarried (yet otherwise in a happy and fulfilling relationship) exempt from having "a very special relationship"?
Is there a "line of inheritance" if the offspring are the result of "open relationship" and not related to the husband/wife?
for starters by trying to get pregnantHow does someone who is married "provide" for potential offspring any more or less than someone who is not married?
for which we can thank the concept of "companionate marriage"I don't think there's anything you can do while married that you can't do whilst otherwise in a long term relationship. Except get divorced.
Which IMO doesn't make marriage worthwhile.
Surely if you are going to say what makes a "great" marriage then:
A loving and 100% monogamous, happy and faithful marriage
Is greater than
An "open marriage"
Unless an open marriage where both parties are fucking other people, risking their own sexual healths and lives is some sort of new ideal.
I suppose if it works for you then that's good but I'm having a hard time supporting the idea of an open marriage or even an open relationship in general.
If I am with a girl who isn't fulfilled with me then by the same token I am not being fulfilled by her. Then it would be better for us both to part ways.
Rather than for us to somehow be "a couple" yet at the same time be fucking other people. To me that's not what a couple or a relationship is.
I would actually be very hurt if someone I cared about felt that they had some need that I couldn't meet and that they had to go to someone else.
So much so that I would end the "relationship" on the spot. It's called pride.