Originally posted by: bips
I dont think anyone here is having a problem with non monogomous men. Thats all fine. The question is why get married? You want to sleep around with 10 ppl go ahead but why marry and make a mockery out of it. You can have kids, sleep around, not commit but why marry then?
What is marriage then? If there is no effort to try for a physical and emotional monogomy then why marry. Is marriage just abt sleeping around and coming back home to vent out work/life frustrations on your wife. What is living together then? If you wine, dine and sleep with someone else then is your wife just some sort of a trophy to show off in front of society
Who says it's just a trophy wife? You are talking about a man who gets married and wants to sleep around. I was talking of open marriages, which do exist and some in BW are also rumored to have such marriages (note: not just applied to the husbands).
I have granted that for Irrfan the situation may be one sided. I was speaking of the idea that marriages do not have to be monogamous. It is not so far fetched. As for the question 'why Marry?' Because marriage means that you are giving that person importance, that the both of you are giving each other importance. The partner may be the one they consider the significant other, marriage is also a social contract that gives each other certain official rights.
And as an aside, It's funny that people say he's confusing marriage for live in. I mean live in relationships also are not commitment? People living together are not monogamous, or all of them are okay with open relationships? No. Most live-in also have an expectation of monogamy.
Edited by likarsh - 12 years ago
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