Monogamy (69)
begin2009: Is MONOGAMY healthy for the mind or spirit ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
if thats wot they want why not
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I would think that if you have chosen the right person there would be no question about it. I say yes. 
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begin2009: Is MONOGAMY healthy for the mind or spirit ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
This will be good. Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
Tough question. I have the pleasure of watching my father with his wife and they have been together for 30 years and I know they will remain together until death parts them.
Is it healthy? For me yes, I am healthier in a long term relationship.
I can only go off what makes me feel healthy and content. If a person feels that way being with multiple partners then they are healthy and happy people.
I don't think there is any straight answer here, I do feel that only people can go off what they feel and what is right for them.
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I enjoyed 40 years with someone very special. I felt it was extremely healthy and fantastic for my mind and spirit. No doubt she felt the same way.
I don't know if it is the healthiest option, but it was for me.
I don't know if it is the healthiest option, but it was for me.
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jeepers: I would think that if you have chosen the right person there would be no question about it. I say yes.
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LethalLove: **Dons flak jacket and helmet**
I believe humans are not inherantly monogomous....they are conditioned to be.
I personally feel by not having spent my entire life with only one romantic lover, I have learnt more about how to relate to many and varied personalities, with their own diverse brand of what love and romantic relationships are.
Monogamy is kind of like the cloistered cleric, who has been celibate all his life, trying to counsel a woman on how to be a woman.
Experience is a good thing...
Now this interests me... I believe humans are not inherantly monogomous....they are conditioned to be.
I personally feel by not having spent my entire life with only one romantic lover, I have learnt more about how to relate to many and varied personalities, with their own diverse brand of what love and romantic relationships are.
Monogamy is kind of like the cloistered cleric, who has been celibate all his life, trying to counsel a woman on how to be a woman.
Experience is a good thing...
I am in my third relationship, I am not talking flings, I am talking relationships, where there is a building of something that has become a unit and two people have become a 'we'
I like your third paragraph, in that I believe I can happily say that one person for me is good and something that I want to build on.
So at the time I am in a relationship, I only want to be with them, even thought there are millions of people that I could fall in love with, I choose to be with one.
When I was single for a couple of years then I choose to with nobody.
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jeepers: I would think that if you have chosen the right person there would be no question about it. I say yes.
Agreed Jeepers...I feel the same way!
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LethalLove: yes!
See my response to Big John....
I feel that having had a few romantic relationships, (in which you choose to be monogomous, within that particular relationship)...is not unhealthy.
Yes, I read it the same way as you... See my response to Big John....
I feel that having had a few romantic relationships, (in which you choose to be monogomous, within that particular relationship)...is not unhealthy.
I am feeling that being with one, is monogamous, not being with more than one person at any given time.
This is where your statment 'humans are not inherantly monogamous' raised my interest, because if being with one person is monogamy, then I would have never been with any body else after my divorce.
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begin2009: Is MONOGAMY healthy for the mind or spirit ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
Long time or a lifetime - heck yes. Forever - no. Unless we were brain-wiped from time to time.
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begin2009: Is MONOGAMY healthy for the mind or spirit ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
A long period or lifetime, YES. Forever - no.
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Ambrose2007: A long period or lifetime, YES. Forever - no.
Hmmmm...sorry about the repeats.
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begin2009: Is MONOGAMY healthy for the mind or spirit ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
Very much down to individuals. Depends on personal beliefs.
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LethalLove: I have interpreted the question as will you remain monogomous to the one partner...even after they are gone...? ie...have only one relationship of a romantic kind in your whole life...Not fool around with 20 different people whilst in one relationship...
See I didn't read it that way. I felt the question was over a long period and/or forever. I believe you can have more than one relationship in your life, but, of course, I believe it should only be with one at a time. I don't support 'fooling' around when you are in a comitted relationship.
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begin2009: Is MONOGAMY healthy for the mind or spirit ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?
I can not answer for anyone but me - and my reply is - it's good. Way better than any other option ever presented to me so far. Forever is soft, cuddly, safe, romantically pink while it's still resilient as steel when put under stress.
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Big_John: See I didn't read it that way. I felt the question was over a long period and/or forever. I believe you can have more than one relationship in your life, but, of course, I believe it should only be with one at a time. I don't support 'fooling' around when you are in a comitted relationship.
John, that is why I agreed with Jeepers, "one at a time" is my belief...no fooling around with another while in a stable Relationship.
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Ashes: John, that is why I agreed with Jeepers, "one at a time" is my belief...no fooling around with another while in a stable Relationship.
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I go with th crowd on this one. I, when in a relationship of commitment am very satisfied with who I am with or I wouldn't be with him. If simply dating now and then,I know some people enjoy variety. However I believe most who are commited are that way out of choice. Those who cheat on thier partner should get out of the commitment.Obviously they are not happy being a couple. I think we as humans for the most part want and prefer monogomy.Just my opinion.
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jeepers: I would think that if you have chosen the right person there would be no question about it. I say yes.
How do you know that you are choosing THE RIGHT person?
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Is staying with one partner over a long period or 'forever' the healthiest option for either or both partners ?