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Re:Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last by xwdv on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:38PM (#21738125)
I feel it should be considered reasonable for people to have a stable main partner whom you spend most of your time with and raise a family with, while still having other partners who may only be temporary but you can pursue romantic interactions with. This is basically the idea behind the ethical non-monogamy trend we see on some dating apps.

The problem is people attach too much ego to their relationships and jealously easily flares up when there is a hint that their partner may also be attracted to someone else. There are also financial motivations for catching your partner in an affair and immediately leaving them.

However, the fact remains that people already have these kinds of relationships, they are just not talked about or openly accepted. It’s a bit like being a gay man 40-50 years ago.

If it weren’t for society priming people to instantly dump a partner upon discovering they are a practicing non-monogamist, people might be forced to think for themselves and decide if that’s something their okay with, and I suspect many people might be.

Re:Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last by malvosenior on Monday December 09, 2019 @09:36AM (#21742963)
I don't think most poly people advocate for cheating (which is what you're doing here). You also make it sound like people are being "tricked" by society into not liking it when they find their partner is cheating on them, when that's the most natural and human response you can expect when you find out you've been deceived at the highest levels.

The only way having multiple partners is ethical is if they are all aware of each other and it was agreed upon before hand that the relationship is open. What you're advocating for is extremely unethical.

Re:Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last by brians on Sunday December 08, 2019 @11:42PM (#21740450)
> ethical non-monogamy

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> partner upon discovering they are a practicing non-monogamist

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> ethical

Nah.

Re:Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last by Jamwinner on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:35AM (#21743462)
I find demeaning others life choices publicly online to be anti-ethical, but what do I know. Please be nice.
Re:Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last by malvosenior on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:46AM (#21743573)
I don't think the post you're replying to is demeaning life choices. The grandparent is advocating for cheating and calling it ethical. The comment you're replying to is correctly stating that it's unethical to have an open relationship when your partner doesn't know it's open. Key quote from the grandparent:

> partner upon discovering they are a practicing non-monogamist

You don't "discover you're a practicing non-monogamist", that's just a euphemism for finding out you're being cheated on. You either agree to non-monogamy or you don't but the only ethical time to give someone that choice is before you've started practicing it behind their back.

> I find demeaning others life choices publicly online to be anti-ethical, but what do I know. Please be nice.

It's actually the grandparent that keeps demeaning people's life choices by calling monogamy "boring", "vanilla" and "on the wrong side of history".