Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.
Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.
I don't really believe in monogamy as the concept that we make it out to be in the family structure.
We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.
Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's always, 'Are you with him, or him?' Perish the thought it might be both.