Opinion of Polyamory

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I can't tell if this thread is going better or worse than the last time we had it.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Being born a bastard to a single mother, the idea of monogamy and the nuclear family was always something I romanticized and yearned for. My entire life I have desired the stability and the structure of the traditional marriage, because growing up in a stable, loving and whole family was something that was denied to me. As a result, I find people who have the opportunity to be a part of that sacred institution but then proceed to disgrace it and tarnish it to be terribly disturbing.

Dude, I could have written all but one word of this myself.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'd like to observe that "consenting adults" isn't actually a complete moral argument, appealing as it is to us denizens of "I'm okay, you're okay, all we need out of life is to Be True To Ourselves" post-modernity. Substantially it's the same as "it's my First Amendment right" or "it's a free country". All it means is that what you're doing isn't a felony.

My mother had a great deal of help raising me--from relatives, friends, my godparents, social workers, and so forth--but I still suffered a great deal from not having the stability and conceptual felicity of two clear-cut parental figures. Please don't armchair diagnose what the problems with other people's childhoods were.