Ethical Non-Monogamy Quotes

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

But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

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.

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

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.

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

I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

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.

If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you're allowed to, that's no good either. There's no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky.

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

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

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.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

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?

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

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

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.

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. "Betray" is a sort of shorthand for what happens.

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

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

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.