Polyamorous or just not sure?

[Ozme52]

Whilst I'm resorting to the tried and true, (a bit old-fashioned, I know) the wedding vows state, "forsaking all others." All others!

Yes if you mean christian (?judeo-christian?) wedding vows... but we wrote ours and excluded this and similarly aligned monogamous concepts. Do you also hold 100% to the obedience clause? One that only applies to the wife?

My brain is muttled after reading all the posts relative to this subject so, I might be repeating what someone already stated. Love between a "couple" is much different than that of children, mother/father, siblings, friends. Afterall, it is with no other that you share such intimacy.

Well, that's the point of the discussion. Can't use it as a dispositive fact.

[blythe spirit]

Yes if you mean christian (?judeo-christian?) wedding vows... but we wrote ours and excluded this and similarly aligned monogamous concepts. Do you also hold 100% to the obedience clause? One that only applies to the wife?



Well, that's the point of the discussion. Can't use it as a dispositive fact.

You're absolutely right, Oz. I am reciting that of the Christian vows. I suppose people can write whatever they want to meet their needs. However, I did hold to the obedience clause. My husband would no doubt, if he were still alive, attest to that. *mournful sighs*

Well, I'm using it because I'm not referring to the love between more than one intimate partner, but as an example of those we love with whom we do not have such intimacy. As I see it, that's a very different kind of love.