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Ep249 - Dan Savage & Esther Perel | Love, Marriage, & Monogamy

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Monogamy and Infidelity

For most of history, faithfulness fidelity had nothing to do with love. It basically was an imposition on women by men in order to know who gets the cows and whose children are mine. We need to tell people that if you're with somebody for really, now, because of expanding, life spans 50, 60 years. If you make a commitment in your early mid twenties or late twenties or thirties,you were both pretty good at monogamy.

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