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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-10-19 03:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2482 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2482 ⌋

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Re: People don't like broken contracts

(Anonymous) 2013-10-20 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Even in a lot of societies where it's socially acceptable for (some) people (usually men) to have extramarital relationships, jealousy and anger on the part of wives often still exists. They just don't have any power to do anything about it so they have to live with it. Hell, there's even a Roman epigram about it, and Roman men certainly were not expected to be faithful (can't remember who, maybe Juvenal?): "If a husband turns his back on his wife in bed, his slave suffers for it."
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Re: People don't like broken contracts

[personal profile] nyxelestia 2013-10-20 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I don't doubt that at all - hell, the difference between "happily open relationship" vs "tolerating adultery" is basically half my parents' marriage in a nutshell. I just mean that the cheating is less about the sex and more about the perceptions of what a relationship entails. If you view exclusivity as a de facto component of a relationship, as opposed to viewing a relationship as a completion of certain 'duties' that then leaves you open to other possibilities, then sex with someone else isn't "just" sex with someone else, but a violation of the 'established' agreement.

Personally, I have the attitude that if I am dating someone, then as long as it doesn't compromise my bodily integrity or my time with them, then they can have all the other relationships they want. So as long they practice safe sex and don't forget me/leave me behind in their efforts to spend time with the other person, I'm find. But obviously this is not a popular standpoint (which is part of why I just don't do relationships anymore).