(January 5, 2015 at 5:30 pm)alpha male Wrote:(January 5, 2015 at 5:19 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: On the other hand, I submit that infidelity does *not* occur if a partner in Couple D does any of those same things - because those behaviors are mutually, and explicitly agreeable to both parties.If the couple is married, and depending on what's going on at the strip club, it's still infidelity. You can't simply agree your way out of it.
According to your idea of what infidelity is, perhaps not. Of course, I'm not the one who's fixated on sexual mores imposed by a long dead third party.
Non-monogamous relationships are not by their nature unfaithful - it is the breach of promise and trust that creates the state of infidelity.
(January 5, 2015 at 5:30 pm)alpha male Wrote: The point of a relationship is to be close.
Says you. Who the fuck do you think you are, defining the point of other's relationships?
(January 5, 2015 at 5:30 pm)alpha male Wrote: Open relationship is a bit of an oxymoron.
Says you.