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I like this, sums up my fairly lazy position quite well: when you're not monogamous, the soap opera vanishes like a bad dream in daylight. The basic fact that you and your partner are living animals with normal libidos doesn't turn into a crisis
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Duncan follows up: My point was that the campaign from the left was a negative one against Boris rather than a positive one in favour of Ken Livingstone. Saying that you should vote against someone just because they are a Tory does not cut it [anymore]
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Damn silly fules, coffee shortage far more important: The threat of a nuclear attack on the UK in the 1950s caused concern over the supply of tea, top-secret documents which have now been released reveal.
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Sculptures and emplacements in various kids playgrounds around the world. Naturally, we want a Cthulhu for Wellholme. For those that've seen part one before, part two was published Friday
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Best selling book on Amazon worldwide in March? 'Liberation' porn novel only available in German (although the author was born in Wimbledon).
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What's the worst Comment is Free article ever? Goggerty's travelogue, Peaches Geldoff's MySpace thing, Neil Clark's existence? Phil is running a series of polls.
Introspection
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except some people do not operate that way. I think it's wrong to say just because that works for some people it will for everyone. I'd feel like such a fake version of me if i said "yeah i don't care if my partner sleeps around" because I would care. And I know nothing will ever change that aspect of me.
I acknowledge I have a libido and am attracted to people, but i'm still monogamous. It makes me comfortable. There would be far more drama if it was the other way around.
This sort of article would help those with drama problems just calm down. Well, maybe. And there are some people that are "poly" that haven't actually come to terms with what that means, and perhaps aren't inclined to be non-monogamous, which sometimes doesn't help matters.
But then there's a difference between "sleeping around" and doing something with someone else—neither of us "sleeps around", we just sometimes do stuff with others. Rarely, but it happens.
agreed. everyone is different. Not judging people in open relationships. Just get a bit worried some people think it's the only way to be and that their way is the best way. I think a while back someone on a mutual friendslist said "why do we need monogamy? That's delving into religious territory!"
erm..okay? Stupid?
But arent you the one who studied a lot of theory? ;-)
As for me, I say, do what's right for you. Someone people can never say with one person, so why make them?
The biggest problem with it is the latter is now socially acceptable (in a way that wasn't 30 years ago) but the former isn't, so we are essentially very discrete (says the person writing under his own name who's carefully managed to make sure this site is top result for it).
I'd rather be as I am than serial monogamy.