american marital infidelity

[Shadow8017]

Why are you acting as though Americans are the only ones plagued by infidelity?

I'm not. But talking about it occuring elsewhere(other than the fact that its not as big of a problem in alot of other countries, which is true btw) exceeds the scope of my post. It's just apart of my hypothesis that adultery is a very large contributor to the high divorce rates in america(1/2).

If you want to sleep around with other people, don't get into a committed, monogamous relationship. I mean, this isn't a hard concept to understand.

My question is more of why we consider monogamy so important to begin with?

This is the reason why so many women are caught in abusive relationships. Every time they get beaten, they don't blame the actual dick who is beating them, but rather themselves.

I can't agree with you that physical abuse is related. When you choose to physically exploit someone in whatever way, its always wrong because you're invading something that belongs to them. A woman in an abusive relationship hangs around because she is submissive, not necassarily because she is "insecure." The line for me becomes so much more blurred when talking about adultery. Where exactly does the fracture of moral law occur here? Is it that we think we have the right to "own" someone, body and mind, upon entering into the contract of marriage? Is it because we infringed on the relationship's "trust"? Why did trust have to exist in the first place? To me, its nothing more than a means of safeguarding oneself against one's own insecurities coming to realization.