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No we can't judge. But if, as you say, it's more than platonic, I hope there are no children involved.Even if it wasn't merely platonic, if that's their thing, who are we to judge?
No we can't judge. But if, as you say, it's more than platonic, I hope there are no children involved.
Well, assuming we're talking about married people forming non-platonic relationships with others, this is endangering their marriage. Hence, if they have children, they are risking the stability of their children's home.Oh? Why?
Well, assuming we're talking about married people forming non-platonic relationships with members of the opposite sex, this is endangering their marriage. Hence, if they have children, they are risking the stability of their children's home.
It's risky behavior. If they are parents, they are risking more people than themselves. Even if, by some stretch of the imagination, they are able to maintain a stable home inspite of the infidelity, they are teaching a behavior to their children that likely will not work so well for them.You're assuming an awful lot. Not every marriage works like yours.
It's risky behavior. If they are parents, they are risking more people than themselves. Even if, by some stretch of the imagination, they are able to maintain a stable home inspite of the infidelity, they are teaching a behavior to their children that likely will not work so well for them.
I respectfully disagree. Open marriages are at a higher risk for divorce. This risk spreads to the children's lives. Divorce can be very harmful to children.It's not that big a stretch, people do it all the time. They just don't tell everybody, for fear of being judged - that, and it's really nobody else's business. People in open marriages tend to keep their sex lives as separate from their children as people in monogamous marriages do, so I don't see how they'd be "teaching" them anything. And who's to say it wouldn't work well for them if they did? Again, you're assuming that one kind of lifestyle is "right," and the only way to do things successfully. That's simply not true.
Of course. And infidelity creates many unhappy marriages.Unhappy marriages are at the highest risk for divorce.
Open marriages are at a higher risk for divorce.
Of course. And infidelity creates many unhappy marriages.
Call it what it really is. Adultery is destructive.Consentual open marriages/polyamory is not infidelity.
Call it what it really is. Adultery is destructive.
Call it what it really is. Adultery is destructive.
Call it what it really is. Adultery is destructive.
Adultery per Dictionary.com: "Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse."
Open marriage or not, sex with someone other than one's spouse is adultery. Butter it up with fancy names all day long, it's still adultery. Adultery is highly risky to a marriage. Therefore risky to the children. Simple logic.
How is this judgmental?