Quote: (09-12-2018 08:54 AM)General Stalin Wrote:
Relax I'm not attacking you or your personal morals, I'm merely proposing a hypothetical question. If you wanna avoid answering it that's fine.
General,
I'm perfectly willing to answer, but I'm not sure what exactly I'm answering.
Is her "inability to please me" because she's had her arms and legs cut off, or in a coma, or fell into vegetative state?
My position here is pretty simple. A man should keep his word. It puzzles me why something that seems so basic to being a decent person, is so anathema to the majority here.
My View:
In an LTR where you've had the "are we exclusive" talk, and both parties agree, you keep your promise of exclusivity. When the relationship is no longer productive for whatever reason, you end it it, and fuck anything you want.
In a marriage, fidelity is essential to the covenant. That covenant can be, and likely should be, broken under the circumstances of : Adultery, Abuse,
Abandonment, and Addiction.
When a spouse refuses to fulfill their part of the covenant, and further refuses to take action to repair it, the covenant is broken and neither party can be held to the promises it implied.
BUT the responsibilities of both people to maintain the covenant is vastly greater than a mere LTR, doubly so if innocent children are involved.
Again, a keeping one's word is not a suicide pact.