LadyNTrainer -> RE: married subs finding Dommes to serve (7/11/2010 7:52:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy Marriage is not really set up for honestly and open communication; that's part of the problem. I think there are very sensible arguments for lying, keeping things tight, and being careful. Just because honesty and open communication are working for me, doesn't mean that's going to work for someone else. A lot of people in life are trapped, and they want to live a little bit outside of their situation -- according to the Salon article, this is a perfectly natural impulse -- even though its largely viewed as antithetical to marriage. To each their own, but I am utterly appalled at the idea that anyone thinks it's a good idea to commit to a life partner with the idea that you must be dishonest and closed to them rather than opening and maintaining healthy lines of communication. There's a difference between not telling your partner that you think their favorite tie looks like a dog threw up on it and hiding major shit going on with your life and how you feel. The former is learning how to express opinions in a tactful way, and the latter turns your marriage into a hollow mockery of a relationship where you don't actually have a life partner, you have a ball and chain that you must tiptoe around and pretend to be someone other than yourself for. I can't imagine any worse hell than that, honestly. I'm good with poly, NOT good with lying or cheating or sneaking. I'm currently in a stable poly LTR with no drama where everyone is open, honest, communicative and speaks up clearly for what they want and need. Nobody feels trapped because we *can* go "visiting" or take vacations when we like. This may be antithetical to the mundane Judeo-Xtian idea of marriage, but it works very well for us, and I don't think it would work at all if we were not honest and communicative with one another. I've also been in monogamous by choice relationships where the "visiting" we did outside the relationship was more on the order of going off and pursuing our own interests, the ones that didn't necessarily thrill our partners. That also worked well for not feeling trapped. Honesty and open communication were still absolute keystones of making the monogamous relationship work. If you are lying and deceiving and misrepresenting and not communicating with your partner, you don't have a partner any more. You have someone you're using as a convenience. That may still be a marriage in the conventional sense, but it's not a partnership in any sense that I can believe in.
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