Quote Originally Posted by Shadow8017 View Post
My viewpoint is this: Americans place waaay too high of expectations on marriage.
You're absolutely right if you change marriage to open relationships.

But once two people get married, trusting that they are devoted to each other until death, then infidelity is quite a tremendous oath to break.
It defeats the entire purpose. It is the total and complete opposite of everything that monogamous relationship and marriage stands for. It's a big deal.

If you need an example, just think of anything.
Like a stick.
What it, like the thing that you would never do to a stick you need.
Burn it?
Okay, burn it.
And now the stick is destroyed.

Or maybe you want to build a fire. Bury the stick in the snow?
Now the fire cannot be made.

Doing the total opposite thing from your objective will invariably ruin the entire purpose, and, to that end, it is an incredible big deal.