I'm in
a polyamorous marriage, which means that with each other's consent and support, my wife and I each date / have relationships / are emotionally and physically...
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that same - sex couples could marry no matter which state they lived in, many believed it would open the door to
polyamorous marriage — marriage among three or more people.
So I was interested to see whether the references Rauch provided really did represent serious efforts to show that one could accept same - sex marriage while still rejecting as a matter of principle, and not merely on pragmatic or prudential grounds, the idea of plural or
polyamorous marriages.
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To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving
marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a
polyamorous sexual partnership.
«No one is arguing for the legal recognition of polygamous or
polyamorous relationships as
marriages!»
If consent and affection are the only criteria for
marriage, then any kind of volitional relationship qualifies as a
marriage, be it
polyamorous, polygamous, «monogamish,» or something else.
If consent and affection are the only criteria for
marriage, then any kind of volitional relationship qualifies as a
marriage, be it
polyamorous, polygamous, ``
Is there any a priori reason to suppose that among people who view
marriage as essentially sexual - romantic companionship or domestic partnership and who construct their lives and relationships in line with that view,
polyamorous partnerships will be more unstable than monogamous ones?
While the group «affirm that God has designed
marriage to be a covenantal, sexual, procreative, lifelong union of one man and one woman, as husband and wife, and is meant to signify the covenant love between Christ and his bride the church», they «deny that God has designed
marriage to be a homosexual, polygamous, or
polyamorous relationship».
Rauch, at least in this article, doesn't say that there is anything wrong with polyamory, much less what is wrong with it; nor does he provide reasons for not giving
polyamorous «families» some form of recognition, as the «Beyond Same - Sex
Marriage» signatories demand.
Yet we balk at the idea of consensual non-monogamy — when couples decide for themselves to have an open
marriage, be
polyamorous, swing, etc. — and consider it to be abnormal.
People sometimes assume that couples in an open, or
polyamorous,
marriage, met at an eccentric arts festival or through a swingers» social network.
With cohabitation increasing within today's society even as
marriage declines, we can expect Generation X and older millennials to still largely be looking for monogamous relationships while younger generations are more likely to explore
polyamorous dating.
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They are also a recognition that separations, whether from a traditional
marriage or from a
polyamorous relationship, are not just a legal process but an emotional process as well.
When Jill and Stephen showed up in my consulting room, they had been married for 10 years and opened their
marriage at the 5 - year mark, after reading about the
polyamorous lifestyle.
And just as many traditional
marriages end in separation,
polyamorous relationships can also end in separation.