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Do you believe in monogamous or non-monogamous relationships? Which do/would you practice? Why? (Page 2)
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I believe in monogamous relationships. I value sharing romantic intimacy with just one person. I'm just not wired to be in a multi-partner open relationship. That's a very unappealing idea to me.
I always find it ironic how women love to champion monogamy one second and then remind men how many options they have the next. If a man realy wants to be stuck w/ one women then ok, but he should really think about what's he's taking on and giving up. Part of the reason there's so many guys whining on sites like GAG is because they buy into this b. s lose the 1 girl they invested in and then are stuck w/ nothing. Let women settle for 1 person men should continue to increase options.
As long as everyone involved gives their informed consent, sure.
@Losalt Informed consent for what?
For whatever you're doing.
For instance there's nothing wrong with one night stands as long as both are aware that it's one and don't mind.
There's also nothing wrong with open relationships and poly relationships as long as everyone involved consents to *that*.
And so one and so forth.
You get the picture.
However if you're in a relationship with someone where exclusivity is assumed or agreed upon then you need to talk with with them and agree upon other terms before doing anything with anyone else, or leave them.
Otherwise anything you do with others is cheating, in other words, breaking the terms of the relationship agreement, and that's... Problematic...
@Losalt Well your first mistake is you shouldn't be having "relationship talks" w/ women. Men should be focused on hanging out hooking up and having fun. Opening up your intentions like that in a relationship is a bad idea because the roles are not equal. It's much easier for women to cheat which is why they want guys to disclose their intentions to them, so they can quickly disqualify them. Men that are successful w/ women dont do that because they understand the risk to their options. What you're saying sounds good in the movies but it's not practical. You sound like a female giving advice to men on dating which is the worse place to get advice from.
That's kind of the point with the terms I'm talking about.
But good luck with becoming old and alone...
@Losalt You're making the mistake of passing your fears on to someone else.
Why would you tell a grown adult as another grown adult that they can only be with you if they give up part of their future? People don't trust themselves anymore... They always say "oh, I can't trust my partner..." "Trust your partner, trust your partner..." No, you need to trust YOURSELF... Trust that you're legitimately a good enough partner; that they'll wanna come back to you eventually, that's the most guaranteed route!!
Thank you.
Between the current cultural norm for monogamy and peoples lack of faith in their own relationships the understanding of polyamory has vanished completely for most people...
Wait, does "believe in" here mean that I believe EVERYONE should have that type of relationship?
In that case I say a strong no to either. Everyone is different. For some people one works better than the other. And people should be free to try different ways. I've been in monogamous and non-monogamous relationships. The same things don't always work with different partners.
Being monogamous is a huge part of what makes a relationship a relationship. It’s a partnership of a couple. Any more than two people involved and it’s nothing but multiple friends with benefits. (I do not see friends with benefits or one night stands as relationships.)
Monogamous because I want to grow old with someone and have stability, stability is important for if you want children especially. I want to feel like I have a family and not a bunch of friends which is how I think open relationships were for me.
Both. I can adapt to whatever my partner prefers. I’ve done both monogamy and non monogamy. It depends on my partners needs, either way I’m happy aslong as I’m in love with my partner. My current relationship is monogamous and it’s just as great as non monogamy because we’re happy.
While I still foolishly believed in love and in women's faithfullness, I was monogamous. But after I saw for myself women can't love and will cheat on you at the first chance they get, I stopped being a fool and started practicing sex only with as many partners as possible.
If someone supports others doing it but doesn't partake in it themselves, they could vote Teo different ways depending on which of your two questions they think the vote is supposed to pertain to.
In nearly all circumstances, I probably wouldn't be interested in polyamorous relationships. But if others want to, that's fine by me.
Depends. I'd be monogamous to a hot virgin submissive girl. But thats a tall order to even find one of those. So since im stuck with less viable women im not a simp so im not going to bother being monogamous with someone less than that.
Currently though my girlfriend was a virgin but also is fine with me sleeping around so really she's the best of the best out there.
Lucky man, don't take her for granted.
Me and my wife have been together for 11 years, was also a virgin.
It's important to make it known and for her to feel like she is and will be the main woman.
@cookiecrusher yeah exactly. I just look down on men who marry these girls with crazy histories! Even just a non virgin i think is nuts but ok fine one or two whatever but 7? 12? 24? What the fucking fuck. Clearly you can have sex with those women wo marriage or anything so why bother? Shit they say they aren't but they are so desperate any guy with half a brain can get them to accept you sleeping around on them. But these bozos promise them fidelity and half their assets... but for what? Secondhand pussy?
I don't take issue with people having fun and sleeping around with multiple people. But when it comes to an actual relationship I think monogamy is the way to go. I just don't feel that open-relationships are healthy, especially when you have a child.
I selected monogamous but... I lied.
I want to stay loyal with one woman forever. But life isn't fair like that anymore. The Bible says God forgives the sinner as long as he repents, and only He can judge.
I want a Queen, a Princess, and a Baby Mama as girlfriends/wives. One can play friend, the other can play daughter, and the other can play mother to me
I think monogamous makes the most sense for stability, but we as a culture seem to have lost any interest in 'stability".
Let's add that most women would rather share an Alpha fuck boy than have a beta to themself. Women want the beta provider to pay for their mistakes and provide resources but they also have the Alpha fuck boy to give them the tingles.
It’s the way of life. You only have one partner to share you life with. Nothing less nothing more. Having multiple of partners is basically cheating in the sense you can’t enjoy one person enough to satisfy your needs
Monogamous, because for me if your partner isn't "enough" it's a problem even if it has been discussed between both parties. There is a problem. But that's my opinion, everyone is free to do whatever they want.
Monogamous and getting married. We both are committed to each other.
however, we do have a kink for threesomes, but for us that’s just a little sexual adventure, not something that changes our relationship
Probably monogamous because otherwise it’s unnatural
Depends. I have a monogamous marriage. But we are non-monogamous sexually, subject to agreed upon guidelines. So, what does that make us - it's whatever works for that couple.
I prefer monogamous relationship I've been in open relationships and they can be difficult so I probably won't ever do that again but who knows
Why didn’t the open ones work out for you?
Jealousy on both sides. Honestly I'm kind of selfish when it comes to relationships I want my man to be only mine lol and I'm only his I want to be the one pleasuring him spending time with him laughing cooking with him etc you know what I mean
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Would you ever do “individual” threesomes or couple swappings “here-and-there”?
I'd consider it as long as my relationship is solid otherwise could cause problems
Ok yeah I agree
My wife said I better both believe in and practice a monogamous relationship or she is taking half my pension and my truck when she divorces me.