By Alisa Bowman
I read an interesting article in the New York Times about monogamy and how it’s going out of style. According to love guru Dan Savage, monogamy just doesn’t work for a lot of couples.
It’s an interesting viewpoint, and to some extent I agree with him. Some people don’t have what it takes to be monogamous. They lack the self-control and they just don’t value it in general. The problem is that these folks still seem to embrace marriage. This is problematic because they seem to mostly embrace marriage with folks who are good at monogamy. And when this happens, the folks who are good at monogamy get hurt.
At any rate, it seems as if the media champions stories about how monogamy sucks. That’s why I decided to write a post listing all of the reasons monogamy rocks.
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