What Are Your Thoughts on a Open Relationship?

Its the couples choice, i give a crap

CosmicZombie

[QUOTE="CocoMarshmellow"]

[QUOTE="binpink"]

Either you're a mind reader or I'm terribly predictable. Likely both.

no_more_fayth

He is as good with predictions as Michael Patcher. So it's most likely the second.

Who's that? :|

The greatest analyst ever.

Anyway.. I don't know how I feel about it. When I get married after being 10+ years with the same person it may not be such a bad idea to allow a 3rd party into the bedroom every now and then to keep things spicy! As long as you both agree of course.

[QUOTE="VladJasonDrac"]

[QUOTE="XturnalS"]

What makes that "love" any more special in its need to be exclusive? Many a parent would lay down their lives for their children, isn't that type of love one could have be considered to be more special than spousal love? What makes spousal love so much more special that it must be exclusively with only one person?

As I've said before I've loved people and connected with people on a physical and emotional level concurrently and recognized that each individual could provide me with happiness and I didn't need to "pick" one to artificially make it more special then what it was in its current state.

XturnalS

You don't have to justify your choices to anyone. They are your choices to make and I personally am not saying you are wrong. I myself would find it extremely hard to be with one person for the rest of my life. That is a huge endeavor that numerous people say they are ready for but fail at miserably. The percentages are against you from the start.

However I am saying tossing around a quote that equates spousal love, a love where reproduction takes place should not be compared to the love of a pet or a child or sibling or parent. That is all lol

I know I don't need to justify, but you sir do need to justify why spousal love shouldn't be equated to the other types when the entire point is to show how odd it is that spousal love needs to be placed on this pedestal apart from the others?

Justify why reproduction somehow trumps the other loves? And what of gay and lesbian couples who without outside assistance cannot reproduce. What of their love? If its simply sex, justify why sex elevates spousal love to another plain when I can love somebody deeply without ever having any type of physical relations with them.

If you want to sleep with your mother or brother or dog then yes it is the same exact thing. Have at it kid.

I would never want to be in one.ghoklebutter

[QUOTE="XturnalS"]

[QUOTE="VladJasonDrac"]

You don't have to justify your choices to anyone. They are your choices to make and I personally am not saying you are wrong. I myself would find it extremely hard to be with one person for the rest of my life. That is a huge endeavor that numerous people say they are ready for but fail at miserably. The percentages are against you from the start.

However I am saying tossing around a quote that equates spousal love, a love where reproduction takes place should not be compared to the love of a pet or a child or sibling or parent. That is all lol

VladJasonDrac

I know I don't need to justify, but you sir do need to justify why spousal love shouldn't be equated to the other types when the entire point is to show how odd it is that spousal love needs to be placed on this pedestal apart from the others?

Justify why reproduction somehow trumps the other loves? And what of gay and lesbian couples who without outside assistance cannot reproduce. What of their love? If its simply sex, justify why sex elevates spousal love to another plain when I can love somebody deeply without ever having any type of physical relations with them.

If you want to sleep with your mother or brother or dog then yes it is the same exact thing. Have at it kid.

And here I thought we could have an actual intellectual conversation on the matter. Also try to avoid condescending remarks towards others, its rather unbecoming and probably could be taken as trolling.