monogamy

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest.

Monogamy is faith in the faithless

People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them.

I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!

Have you heard of the Children of Mae?___he cult?_ She knew of a religious group whose members went door to door, preaching the benefits of self-discipline__bstinence, celibacy or monogamy, vegetarianism__retty much anything fun was prohibited. They had never come to Vesper__ house because her father was a butcher and probably pretty low on their list of possible converts.

If love wasn't conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody.

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.

If love wasn__ conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*

Monogamous relationships can be based on fear: fear of losing my partner because he might fall in love with another woman, or fear that she may find a more secure man with a deeper purpose than my own to guide and protect her.__evertheless it also can be based on love where our commitment to open and be opened by one intimate partner becomes our way to express love for him or her, our children, friends, and ultimately the whole world and Source.

No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all of this bloody retribution, it's hard to see how monogamy comes "naturally" to our species. Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers- even presidential legacies- for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.