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a sexual component... Is that the basis of the relationship? No more so than it is the basis of your marriage. I mean, really, is that all your marriage is? The sex? Is that the ONLY thing that sets it apart from every other relationship in your life? Is that the ONLY reason you are even married to begin with?
We work together towards common goals... financially, we get there quicker with more than two incomes. We look out for each other. We take care of each other.
This is an excellent point that I've tried to put into words when discussing similar topics with people before. Thanks.
pol·y·an·dry (pl-ndr)
n.
1. The condition or practice of having more than one husband at one time.
2. Zoology A mating pattern in which a female mates with more than one male in a single breeding season.
3. Botany The condition of being polyandrous.
Polyamory (from Greek πολυ [poly, meaning many or several] and Latin amor [literally “love”]) is the desire, practice, or acceptance of having more than one loving, intimate relationship at a time with the full knowledge and consent of everyone involved. Polyamorous perspectives differ from monogamous perspectives, in that they reflect one or more partner's wish(es) to have further meaningful relationships and to accommodate these alongside their existing relationships.
Interesting apparently someone thinks polyamory and polyandry are the same. The threads were combined.
You're right that they aren't the same, but they're related. Just as swinging and open relationships were mentioned although they aren't the same thing, either. It all ends up lumped into one big old "multiple partners" topic.
In early India, along the Malabar coast and in the foothills of the Himalayas, there was a custom of polyandry: which permitted a woman to have several husbands. In the great epic, Mahabharata, its heroine was married to five brothers from the same family.
Now, let's try to imagine what went on in one of those households, with a woman married to 5 husbands living under the same roof.
If there had been a child, who, pray tell, would have been the father? In a polygamous relationship, with a man with 5 wives, that would be quite obvious, who the father was. But in this situation?
If this practice were to be revived and accepted, do you know of any woman alive that would be attracted to a polyandrous lifestyle?
Studies of contemporary Tibetan communities in India and Nepal where polyandry is still practiced say that the mother has the final word on who the father is of any particular child. "A mother just knows", say the women. Two or three brothers are betrothed to one women in order to keep the family farmland from being split up.
Polyandry is practiced in the US, but it's hidden, because it's not socially acceptable. Some women with three "husbands" say one is the legal husband, the "renter" in the household is the second husband, and the third is usually a close neighbor. Within the group marriage, all is above-board, but the situation remains carefully hidden from outsiders.
Polyandry is still the customary practice in parts of the Amazon and the Pacific Islands. In peripheral areas of Siberia, the custom was for women to have an official husband, but she was free to mate with whomever she chose. This was considered to be in the best interests of the tribe; the woman had the right to chose whoever she felt would make a valuable genetic contribution in terms of guaranteeing strong, healthy children. Today in the far north and parts of the Pacific Coast of Siberia, it's not uncommon for siblings now in middle age to each have a different father, but the same mother. The practice was ended by the Soviet regime at some point in the mid-20th Century.
5 times the "Honey I'm hungry"
"Honey did you do my wash?"
"I can't take out the trash, working"
"Going to be out"
"Where's my shoe?"
"I don't feel good"
"I'm cutting the grass, No I am, No I am,No I am, No I am"
"Where's the remote"
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