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1312: Is Marriage Really Synonymous with Monogamy by Dr. Marisa Cohen of Luvze on Consensual Non-Monagomy

Optimal Relationships Daily - Dating, Marriage and Parenting

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Is Marriage Really Synonymous With Monogamy?

The book discusses her quest to feel fulfilled as she takes on both male and female lovers. The idea that individuals cannot be satisfied in an open relationship mostly originated from our heterocentric view of monogamy, writes author Toni Morrison. A documentary followed couples who have made it over the 50 year marriage mark. It asked howard and cecil waite, a couple married for 63 years, discussed the arrangement in which he would drop CECIL off at her boy friend's house on his way to his girl friend's house. All this, but they never once consider divorce.

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