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Monogamy
Are humans "meant" to be monogamous? Is it a matter of how deep a person is committed to another?
Is it just biology that makes "mating for life" a difficult and rare thing?
Are there some that just weren't cut out for it?
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| June 15, 2007, 16:03 |
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Re: Monogamy
If you find the right person, i feel you can stay together for life.
I also think it depends on the type of person you are.  
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| June 15, 2007, 18:01 |
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Re: Re: Monogamy
QUOTE (hotbubblegum @ June 15, 2007, 18:01)If you find the right person, i feel you can stay together for life.
I also think it depends on the type of person you are.
Why does the court say life is 20yrs. and early release with good time,,, But in Marriage, life is untill you Die  Thats not FAIR,,, 
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| June 15, 2007, 19:59 |
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Re: Monogamy
It may not be fair - but you make the choice to enter into the institution of marraige.
I am torn on the issue of human monogamy - I guess I tend to believe that it is a restraint that we have placed on ourselves and a belief system that we have created. I don't know that we were meant to be that way.
I am afraid I'll be blasted for this one 
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| June 16, 2007, 18:19 |
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Re: Re: Monogamy
QUOTE (CKTC @ June 16, 2007, 18:19)It may not be fair - but you make the choice to enter into the institution of marraige.
I am torn on the issue of human monogamy - I guess I tend to believe that it is a restraint that we have placed on ourselves and a belief system that we have created. I don't know that we were meant to be that way.
I am afraid I'll be blasted for this one
Why should anyone blast you, you have a right to your opinion.
I think it is all about survival, who's got what, who want's it, and what are they willing to put up with to get it.
The only reason I say that is because rich people do not put up with anything, love is a state of pheromones, mind and mood. And soon as it gets a little boreing or tough they split and find someone new. The rest of us find ways to make things work because we are either insecure, have no other place to go or feel that it wont be any better with some one else. 
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| June 16, 2007, 19:04 |
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Re: Re: Monogamy
QUOTE (CKTC @ June 16, 2007, 18:19)It may not be fair - but you make the choice to enter into the institution of marraige.
I am torn on the issue of human monogamy - I guess I tend to believe that it is a restraint that we have placed on ourselves and a belief system that we have created. I don't know that we were meant to be that way.
I am afraid I'll be blasted for this one
Good thoughts there! I too do beleive that the making a commitment of monogamy is to be taken very seriously...and it's understood that it's gonna be a tough row to hoe sometimes, but it's is a commitment.
Are humans capable of mating for life? Some seem born for it and others it just nearly impossible...at one time, I suppose our mating was based on the need to survive and carry on the genes of the strongest to protect our species...but is it possible to evolve out of this when it's not e need to survive ?
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| June 17, 2007, 12:38 |
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Mooant
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New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Re: Monogamy
Apparently I won't be monogamous anymore... Any takers on being my first post divorce woman? 
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| June 18, 2007, 01:36 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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At this point in our evolution, I'm not so sure. But give it another 10,000 years and then we might damn close. But given the right person, it's always much easier to attain that goal. We may never be monogamous mentally, but physically its really not that hard.
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| June 18, 2007, 01:38 |
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iceone4u
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Cincinnati, Ohio, US
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Wow!.. This is really a can of worms. Ok.. ok.. let's see. Looking back into history, I can see that monogamy was something that was something that was taken very seriously by the masses. As time has gone on, there has been a lack of emphasis on it, and thus we are here discussing it. OH.. let's not forget the apparent "Sexual Revolutions" we've had in our history. I think they were used as additional reasons to do what we want.
Any of you that have read my posting before, might possibly have heard me talk about my sincere belief that things begin with good parenting. I think that applies here too. See.. if kids see their parents in a monogamous relationship, they are likely to do the same... having a positive example to go that road. If not... well, I think the results are very predictable to all of us.
So.. are we meant to be monogamous? I think yes. But like so much we have really messed things up with life.. as a general population... we've changed that to suit ourselves for the here and now.
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| June 19, 2007, 05:02 |
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Liberalwife
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Re: Monogamy
I don't think we are "meant" to be monaganous, nope, not at all. No-one can predict what is going to happen within a marriage, or how long it will last.
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| June 19, 2007, 06:43 |
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