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- From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
- Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
- Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:53:00 +0000
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec23.165649.5640@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
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- This time a sober response! Aahz, I'm afraid you hit a spot with me
- and I started another discussion entirely. Glad I did though!
- First off, I don't think something this personal is worth flaming
- over. Do you like cheese? Do you like Stilton? Really ripe, soft,
- cheesey, gungy Stilton? I don't. Some people adore it. It doesn't
- hurt me that they eat it, unless we're trying to share a dish. It
- doesn't hurt them that I don't eat it, unless we're trying to share a
- dish. Attitudes to committment, faithfulness and promises and
- intentions are very much like tastes in food, I believe. It only
- concerns the person concerned unless it also concerns the person/s
- they are getting involved with.
- Monogamy, to me, is committment. Choosing the other as your
- significant other and agreeing with them to be a pair and partners.
- That means that you don't get involved with another as well, on that
- same level - which is probably sex and serious long-term emotional
- support. Loving on the basis of "you are my significant other, you
- are my most important other, my primary relatoinship is with you".
- Some of us want/can only have/prefer/.... to have only one, primary
- relationship. Some people are happy to have a number of fairly deep
- relationships with different people. Some prefer one primary
- relationship with some secondary or tertiary or ... (and so on)
- relationships that involve some level of sex, emotional committment
- and attention.
- What you put into a relationship, I think, is energy. Monogamy is
- saying that your energy goes mainly, first and in some areas
- exclusively to your partner. You choose each other, you choose to be
- together and you believe that the nature of your relationship is such
- that you want to make that committment and keep some things only for
- each other and not share those things with other people.
- I really do think that flaming on this sort of subjet is like flaming
- on whether you should have pizza or indian food for dinner. Unless
- you are eating with teh person concerned, it's up to them to make
- their mind up. Discussing the whys and wherefores in a relaxed,
- interested, informative, questioning, supportive way - different ball
- game, of course.
- Try soc.bi for some interesting attitudes to some of this... Can you
- summarise the main points of the alt.polyamory discussion to show us
- the level of the discussion?
- Mary and her sober Tail!
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- | Organisation: Me? You're joking, right? |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
- | |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp |
- |I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-) |
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