Polygamy?, whats your opinion Options

[1234king]

I was watching t.v. today and every news channel that i flipped to had the piligamy issue on it. i was just wondering about your opinion on it. i think you should only marry one person.

"edit" sorry i some how f-ed up the poll again. i spaced between the lines.

"grabs chair and smashes computer"

This post has been edited by 1234king: May 12 2006, 05:16 AM

[mplantinga]

I have been in a monagamous relationship for 3.5 years (I know, it pales in comparison to many of the others here), and I just don't feel like I could handle polygamy. That's not to say that it couldn't work for other people, but I think it takes a lot of effort to maintain the degree of emotional intimacy required for a truly close relationship. Certainly there are great benefits to sharing yourself so completely with another, but I just don't see how I could be able to have that same level of relationship with multiple people at the same time. Perhaps the real question is whether anyone could truly achieve this; or perhaps this is not the sort of relationship sought in polygamy. One of the major reasons that many societies have banned polygamy is out of concern for the financial welfare of any children born into a polygamist family, especially if any break-ups occured within the family. So, perhaps, polygamy is something that really only works if you are willing to sacrifice individual closeness and have the financial means required to support the large number of children that would most likely result. Well, I think I've rambled on long enough. I'm not sure I really said anything useful. Oh well.