I honestly believe that, along with the majority of mammals, we were never designed to be monogamous. If that were the case, then surely we’d all be content with one partner and yet swingers clubs are attracting more and more people and cheating has become so commonplace that it’s almost expected! In fact, I’ve even heard men being ridiculed for nothing having ‘a bit on the side’.
Anybody who ever watched Jerry Springer, Trisha or Jeremy Kyle will know that if we all decided to live in monogamous relationships, those people would be out of jobs! All we ever hear about on their shows are the tragic stories of how one partner is being cheated on by the other, whether it’s “I don’t know whether the baby’s mine”, “she came home with a love bite on her neck” or “he’s never home and never answers his mobile phone.” It’s all the same… unhappy, frustrated people trying to deal with what is, in my opinion, a perfectly natural situation.
Don’t you think that if we all got real and accepted that ‘philandering’for want of a better wordis natural and that it’s probably going to happen, regardless of how good the relationship is otherwise, that there would be a lot less heartbreak? Evidently around 70% of us have an extramarital affair at some point or another so it stands to reason that the vast majority aren’t willing or able to stick to one partner throughout life. Isn’t it about time we accepted that?
It seems to me that society has pushed us into an unnatural situation that was meant to make us happier but that’s actually had the opposite affect.
What’s the point?
Sadie xxx
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