Monogamy

After meeting members where they are and accepting the members in that space, leaders and other members of the group will allow members the opportunity to grow and change with continued acceptance. Many individuals may need to process changes in their relationships, whether they are changes that they are in control of or that someone else in their life is making. Changes in any relationship can be difficult, but when you factor in multiple relationships, particularly when considering polyamory…

Marriage and Divorce The article, “The State of Our Union” by: David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, discusses marriages and marital relationships in the United States. Rutgers University utilizes yearly data on marriages and divorces. This information and statistics show both increases and decreases in marriages among men and women of different races and ages throughout the decades until the new millennium. “The State of Our Union”, shows us that most people plan on getting married in…

Duty: a moral or legal obligation; a responsibility. Between marriage, the duties of the husband and wife can sometimes differ apart from the different parties in the marriage. However, in many marriage relationships, there is one party who steps up and takes control and commands the duties of the wife and the husband. While many people believe that marital relationships are expressed and based around love and mutual respect, Shakespeare argues in his play The Taming of the Shrew that these…

In today's general public, separation is more the standard than any time in recent memory. Forty percent of all relational unions end in separation. Separation characterized by Webster is the activity or an occurrence of lawfully dissolving a marriage [1]. Separation itself is both a reason and an impact. A causes' percentage of separation incorporate the absence of cash, sexual rashness and the simplicity of getting a separation. These are probably the most widely recognized reasons for…

In the United States, researchers estimate that 40%–50% of all first marriages and 60% of second marriages will end in divorce. There are some well known factors that put people at higher risk for divorce: marrying at a very early age, less education and income, living together before marriage, a premarital pregnancy, no religious affiliation, coming from a divorced family, and feelings of insecurity. The most common reasons people give for their divorce are lack of commitment, too much arguing,…

With divorce rates seemingly increasing every year in America, it raises a question, are American families in trouble? Divorce used to be something that was shunned, but now it has become generally accepted by society because of how often people go through divorce. Now in America a divorce occurs nearly two thousand four hundred times per day. This statistic is growing year by year, and leaves me to wonder why it is increasing so much. The articles I read on this matter shed light on the…

Often when people hear of individuals or couples who engage in consensual non-monogamous relationships (CNM) they think of the relationships as inherently flawed and less valuable and as the individuals as damaged and lacking self-esteem. However, much research thus far refutes these beliefs. Rather, individuals who engage in CNM have similar qualities to monogamous individuals and view their relationships as normal loving relationships (Barker, 2005). Moreover, CNM relationships have…

Polyamorist embrace the love for multiple people, which allowed them to develop the feelings of “compersion”, instead of jealousy. This shows how in the societal norm of monogamy, relationships are view as a possession or ownerships, unlike polyamory. “Compersion” is a word that was made up and is use by polyamorist to describe their emotion towards many loves, “The feeling of taking joy in the joy that others you love share among themselves, especially taking joy in the knowledge that your…

better defined by polyamory than monogamy. While I was filling the intake, I was able to explore better my sexual and relationship history to better understand my sexual identity. The struggle that I face be clear about my identity is due to my cultural values. I am culturally bound to monogamy, but I have not been able to maintain a healthy monogamous relationship, most of the times. The monogamous relationship that was fulfilling to me involved infidelity. Monogamy and adultery occur…

Concepts: Monogamy, Second Shift Including myself, my family and friends practices monogamy. Most of my family members and friends are not even aware that they practice monogamy. To them, it is all they know and are accustomed to. They do not even consider other practices like polygamy or polyandry; probably because it was never exposed to them. According to Dalton Conley (2015), monogamy is “the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time” (p. 372). In other words, only…