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Subject: 
Re: Polyamory
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 15 Dec 2000 05:20:51 GMT
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Lorbaat wrote:

> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> > Lorbaat wrote:
> 
> > Except that I have NO idea where they are - they're buried in with millions of
> > car
> > mags.  I don't put them on an altar or anything.
> 
> Heh!  No, I wasn't suggesting that you did.  But still, saying "there have been
> cases!  Really!"  Doesn't cut it.
> 
> Or, to put it another way, "I read in the Boston Globe once that a guy got
> arrested for painting his house green!  He was convicted and sentenced to 10
> years in jail.  I don't know where it is, though."
> 
> > > OK, so you married one.  What was keeping you from carrying on a
> > > relationship
> > > with both after that?  What was keeping you from marrying neither and
> > > carrying
> > > on a relationship with both, for that matter?
> > 
> > Good question.  At the time, personal choice.  I grew away from the other
> > woman.
> > I can tell you that IF polygamy were legal and IF I had married her, I would
> > have
> > worked it out - I don't consider divorce an option, personally.
> > 
> > But that was in college anyways, I was less mature then.
> 
> So, wait.  Are you saying that you feel, in the end, that you made the right
> choice, and that wanting to be with both was less mature?  Or are you saying
> that as a more mature person now you think you could have made a relationship
> with both work?

The latter.


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  Re: Polyamory
 
(...) Heh! No, I wasn't suggesting that you did. But still, saying "there have been cases! Really!" Doesn't cut it. Or, to put it another way, "I read in the Boston Globe once that a guy got arrested for painting his house green! He was convicted (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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