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- From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
- Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.164742.20296@data-io.com>
- Sender: news@data-io.com (The News)
- Organization: Data I/O Corporation
- References: <1992Dec23.165649.5640@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.010508.9581@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:47:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.010508.9581@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
- >BTW, based on some responses I'm seeing, just wanted to ask that people
- >discuss the *definition* of "monogamy", rather than whether or not they
- >themselves are monogamous. Kitten and Mike have done a good job so far.
-
- Laughter!! But my definition is *based* on my life. :)
-
- O.K. In short form. Monogamy is 1) No Intercourse with anyone but the
- one and 2) making the commitment to put the one other first amoung all
- others, emotionally. Mary pointed out a good distinction for that last,
- in that the stricture we go by is "Love your neighbor as you love
- yourself.", which implies that I love myself *first* and that enables me
- to love others. But it *doesn't* mean that we can't love other people,
- just that we're first in each others regard.
-
- And, by the by, Elf! has a wife, who he puts first, above all others; and
- everyone *knows* that before they get involved with him. So he is very
- close to Omaha and plans on sharing the rest of his life with her. But
- he's also very polyamorous physically as well as emotionally. Also, I
- know a group of three and a group of four who have polygamous marriages,
- they all consider themselves married to all the other members in the
- group; and I'd imagine that they'd be a group of three or four candles
- that decided to merge that way... none of them ever stand alone, and the
- commitment is as solid as any I've ever seen in a monogamous marriage.
- The communication, though, is insane...
- --
- Phyllis Rostykus | "... and how you feel can make it real | - _US_
- aka Liralen Li | Real as anything you've seen | Peter
- li@Data-IO.com | Get a life with this dreamer's dream." | Gabriel
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