Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes

My husband Terry and I are mostly monogamous. . . . There are times — certain set and limited circumstances — when it is permissible for us to have sex with others.

I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's always, 'Are you with him, or him?' Perish the thought it might be both.

Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.

Why am I sharing this part of my life when it opens me up to judgment? But part of me wants to share that part of my life because I think non-monogamy is a normal thing for human beings to want.

You can be with your wife, very happily married, and then you meet some woman and you love her. But you love your wife, too. And you also love that one. Or if she's met some man and she loves the man and she loves you. And then you meet somebody else and now there are three of you. Why only one person?

I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

My wife and I want to try swapping. We want to go to one of those key parties where you put your keys in a bowl. But we just want to upgrade our car.

I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?

I'm a firm supporter of the word polyamory. But that one is close to my heart.

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.

I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

Is it adultery if I’m committing it at one end of a guy and he’s committing it at the other end of that same guy?

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.

I don't think our system, where we have one romantic partner, where we get married and we're only supposed to have sex with one person - that doesn't make a lot of sense. Not that polygamy makes any more sense. I've found a system that seems to work for me, and it doesn't require monogamous commitment from anyone.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

My whole thing is, if you love this person as much as you say you do and you spent this much time together, you owe it to that person to have a conversation with them about opening up the relationship one way or another before you go and you act on it.

I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.

I'm not the greatest husband - I've got a girlfriend. It doesn't really please my wife, but then if I was looking to please her I wouldn't have a girlfriend. I mean she knows about it, and I guess she's okay with it. Plus my kids like both of them.