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- From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
- Newsgroups: alt.polyamory
- Subject: Re: Golden Rules And Me
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 23:31:56 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- In article <C01LH4.CyG@vcd.hp.com> tonyl@vcd.hp.com (Tony Long) writes:
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- [ an extensive and lucid self-description deleted... ]
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- > Her position is "If you have an affair I don't want to know
- > about it".
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- I am NOT recommending this but:
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- I am acquainted with a couple in an open marriage
- that operates on the above basis. When I asked why they
- chose this approach rather than one with more
- disclosure, the answer I got was that they were both
- extremely prone to jealousy, therefore this worked
- better for them. They have a few other rules, relating
- to where and when things are done, all with the
- purpose of driving the amount of information exchanged
- about possible outside relationships to zero.
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- Although I'm fairly sure that this kind of set up would
- not work for me, nor would I desire it even if it
- could work, the couple in question seem to have a healthy
- relationship.
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- Steve
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