What is a relationship?

[OnyxCougar]

Originally Posted by glatt

The whole point of marriage is that you are making a promise to choose the exclusive relationship. Of course there are more fish in the sea. You are making a promise to ignore those other fish. If you don't want to stop fishing, don't get married.

Amen.

I think relational labels are like ANY words....merely words. They describe ones relationship to another for the purpose of (1) telling other people what they mean to you in a shorthand fashion and (2) sometimes telling yourself what a person means to you.

The problem is when people don't agree on what that descriptive label means. "Wife" to one person may mean exclusivity, while to another it's simply the person I come home to every night and breed with.

The important part of any relationship is not what you call it, but what you do with it.