Carl and Bob agree that neither of them will spend time alone with another friend. Five years into their friendship, Bob secretly meets up for beers and shooting pool with Alice. Carl asks him where he was -Bob lies. Carl finds out and, furious, ends the friendship. (cont)
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I think this is probably true, but if you take it as almost inevitable that cheating will happen because of the unreasonable nature of the agreement, how do you account for all the people willfully content in their monogamy - all those that never actually do cheat?
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I think probably most of them are not content all the time. Maybe Bob and Carl are mostly content in their friendship, and the fear of the wrath/loss of friendship of the other is enough to keep them in line, but they are *still* suppressing themselves even if they never 'cheat.'
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The dissimilarities here though, not sure I want to talk about them in public.
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I'm not arguing that monogamy is bad because it's not natural, I'm arguing it's bad because it increases the suffering of the people inside it.
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Promising to do an exceptionally difficult thing doesnt absolve you of the responsibility of following through. Let alone lying about your failure to do so. Also that which poly people find difficult, mono people may not. People vary.
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Maybe I'm disillusioned. This source indicates that 25% of marriages end up with one of the people cheating: https://psychcentral.com/blog/how-common-is-cheating-infidelity-really/ … which indicates conservatively that at least 1/4 people find monogamy really hard!
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Different things are inherently reasonable. Not meeting with friends is something that does not seem as unreasonable a thing to promise as not sleeping with someone else. Betrayal and promise breaking is worse depending on the nature of the thing done.
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This is definitely been in my mind. I do feel relationship any kind seems almost like a box. Trapping us. When love is strong within us then people will come & go. We won't fear being alone. If our love is warm they will come back. So no fear only free love. IMO Of course.pic.twitter.com/BnQdd394Rm
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