I don't care if the girl is slim or fat, I just want the girl that makes me happy.
Even if ethical monogamy would never be your thing, it raises interesting questions. Why is it that we put monogamy on such a pedestal when almost half of all marriages fail? Maybe we’re expecting too much. Can one partner be our best friend, stimulate us intellectually, and fulfill all of our sexual needs all at once and all of the time? Could relying on different people to fulfill our different needs, even in non-sexual ways, lessen the strain on our relationships and make us happier?
Regardless of how you view the answers to these questions, ethical non-monogamy offers important lessons.
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— Uh, I'm married.
— That's allowed.
One thing for sure... We ain't had a boring marriage.
— 'Course a good husband's hard to find.
— You weren't hard to find. You were standin' in front of the whole town with a rope around your neck.
If you want to stare death in the eye, you should've gotten married.
If you encounter any problems, tensions, any arguing, that you cannot resolve yourself, you will be assigned children. That usually helps. A lot.
Helen Tasker: — Listen, the plumber called. He says he has to dig under the slab or something that's gonna cost $600.
Harry Tasker: — That's okay.
Helen Tasker: — It's not okay. It's extortion.
Harry Tasker: — What did you tell him?
Helen Tasker: — I slept with him and he said he'd knock off $100.
Harry Tasker: — That's good thinking. Bye, honey.
I don’t want to be the person you always agree with. I want to be the person you challenge – to change, to grow, to expand in ways that wouldn’t have ever occurred to me before I met you. I want heated debates at 3am. I want stark disagreements when I’m acting out of line. I want passionate arguments about the way we’re living because your fire fuels mine and I never want that spark to die out. I want to be someone you aren’t afraid to challenge because sometimes I need that extra push. And you can bet your ass that I’ll push you right back.
— Yeah, but being married is the normal way to live, isn't it?
— Who says so?
— Edna.
— Oh, Harold, I think you've been brainwashed. You're missing a very important point. Marriage is not a basic fact of nature. It's an invention.
It's like the infield fly rule. It exists only because the women say so. And, like idiots, we just go following right along.
— No, no, no, Stan. I... No, I don't know I would do without Edna. She, uh... she... Well, she... she plans the meals, sends my shirts to the laundry.
— Harold, you're making another basic common masculine mistake. You're confusing love and laundry.
— Are you Arabic?
— No. No...
— Let me put it another way. Are you married?
Incompatibility — in matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a mustache.