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It doesn't matter what you nor I believe. The relationship (and marriage) is defined by the couple and no one else.
Your use of the word "blatantly" and questioning of morality implies a bias against open relationships.... open relationships don't have to be "blatant".. in fact they rarely are from my experience and observation. Open couples can be just as discreet and selective as a non-open relationship couples.
Sounds like you are just looking for an argument rather than a discussion.
Why not. It is not my marriage. It is up to the couple to decide what kind of marriage they want and the parameters that make sense for them.
And it is up to the couple to establish the right practices for bringing other parties into their marriage. And it up to those individuals to decide how they want to participate in the relationship. Who cares what they are doing?
Do you believe that spouses should openly and blatantly sleep with other people while legally married?
Is it morally right in the 2010s and heading into the 2020s?
No...I mean, I don't get being married if you're sleeping with others. Might as well be an unmarried couple and not make marriage a joke by doing such things.
There is more to marriage than sex... open marriages just means certain couples treat sex differently than others. If one's marriage is primarily built on sex to begin with, then its not much of marriage anyways.
This is typical biased thread....
It makes the following implications:
- open relationships are immoral
- open relationships mean the couple is blatant
- open relationships equates to sexual promiscuity and not being selective
- open relationships do not establish the foundation of marriage... ie the foundation of a marriage is exclusion sexually.
which are all in accurate and don't necessarily apply to the wide range of types of open relationships..
Doesn't matter what I believe in, if someone wants an open marriage and they are both happy with, then more power to them!
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Do you believe that spouses should openly and blatantly sleep with other people while legally married?
Is it morally right in the 2010s and heading into the 2020s?
'believe in'? What does that even mean?
Would I have one? No. Would I care if someone else did? Of course not. Why on Earth would I?
'morally right'? What's the moral problem? If the marriage is open, then by definition both partners are on board. It is ridiculous to decry such a thing as immoral. The only reason to do so would be due to a pointless adherence to baseless religious dictates, and I do not waste my time with such nonsense.
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Originally Posted by ThisTown123
No...I mean, I don't get being married if you're sleeping with others. Might as well be an unmarried couple and not make marriage a joke by doing such things.
I don't 'get' a lot of things. It does not follow that I think others are wrong to engage in those things just because I don't 'get' them.
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