Originally posted by: naaznin
If one wants to f*ck around than what's the point of getting married. The child will always question his identity.
Open marriage is definitely not cheating but its not a marriage actually. Why marry n why remain being married. If one has guts to sleep around than one should have guts to remain single or break a marriage.
A marriage is a legal contract and/or a social contract. The legal contract gives people certain rights and benefits like inheritance, medical power of attorney, etc. The social contract fulfills society's cultural and religious beliefs like God blessing the union, having social approval to cohabit and have sex, etc. If a contract sounds beneficial or lucrative people will sign it. It has never been nor ever will be about love. If it was about love there wouldn't be a distinction between love marriage vs arranged marriage. Love is a cherry on top that makes being in a contract bearable and even joyful and fulfilling.
Secondly, love and sex are not the same things. While sex can be an expression of love, sex can just be something that one enjoys. Even if there is emotional intimacy the range of emotional intimacy can vary from casual friendship to being head over heels in love. People get into open marriages because they do care about each other and want to spend their lives together but they still wish to enjoy the rush of dating, picking people up, flirting, and sexual connection with other people.
There are BFFs who get into regular or platonic open marriages because they share a lot of emotional intimacy but aren't that sexually into each other. There are people who get into open marriages because they are on the same page about kids and family, are in financially stable places to start families, and believe they have compatible parenting skills to raise successful kids - but they aren't necessarily in love.
And if the whole world switches to matrilineal inheritance and families - children will never have to question their identity. Children are made to doubt their roots because the whole world is concerned about "who's your father?" "whose name do you take?" "whose heir are you?" but the child comes out of the womb and motherhood is never in doubt (except in surrogacy) - if the whole world roots their identity in the mother, that solves the problem of trying to figure out who the father is.
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