There is a semantic issue with 'love,' I agree. I would say I love my closest friends & this seems straightforwardly true to me. My husband could have just as close bonds but not use the word 'love.'https://twitter.com/DrMarranci/status/967723801290014720 …
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How comfortable are you with your husband having deep, loving emotional relationships with attractive women? Even if you're sure there will never be physical acts.
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I'm OK with this providing it doesn't take anything from me. As well as, not instead of bonding with me. He has had two good female friends. One was a lesbian, admittedly but the other was a Bunny Girl. However, I also wouldn't mind if he wanted to have extramarital sex.
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95% of the time I think we're on the same page. Including in your championing of loving non-sexual relationships. But sometimes, as when I read your reply to me, I think we're from different planets. I'm glad we can coexist respectfully.
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I'd guess attitudes towards extramarital sex is one of the areas where secular humanists and religious conservatives differ most.
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I don't think it's that so much. Most of my friends are secular humanists but still value sexual exclusiveness. I just don't. Never have. My husband does and I'd never cheat on him because it would hurt him. I value honesty and loyalty.
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Ok. But you don't think discriminatory relationships like marriage, choosing one romantic / sex partner to exclusion of others, the family as a unit with some group rights & responsibilities, preference for one's family, etc are a more awkward fit for secular humanists?
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* Except down the pub and after a few beers, prefixed with an expletive and wrapped in a hug.
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