Throuple on House Hunters

[Anonymous]

House Hunters plus all the channel’s programs have always been one step ahead of the fray.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

That is not a family. That is three people who like to get it on together.

Two of the three are legally married and the third had a commitment ceremony with both. The kids also were introduced in a fair manner. That's about as 'family' as you can get in this year with three people.

I don't see this as any different from blended families with stepparents and non-blood related siblings sharing a house.

It's very different. A stepparent is part of a married couple, and married couples have legal rights, obligations, and shared property. Legally there is no obligation to a second "wife." The original hetero couple can decide it's too much of a strain on their marriage or their kids and kick out the second wife at any time, for any reason. She will have no recourse, no alimony, and probably no joint bank accounts. In the future, she will not be entitled to any potential social security payments or retirement accounts, and they don't have to financially support her in any way. If she was in the will, they can write her out. It's an unequal power dynamic from the start because the second wife simply has more to lose. And if 50% of marriages end in divorce, the probability of this "throuple" ending up real or pretend divorced is even higher based on statistics alone because they are in a triad which is basically 3 intimate relationships at once instead of one intimate relationship, so it's even more fragile and complex than a typical marriage. They're raising their kids in an extremely unstable and experimental living situation that is statistically more likely to fail than a regular marriage, which it probably will when the high wears off.

[Anonymous]

HGTV is hilarious. Who is running things over there? About 5 % of people are gay, but 95% of the house hunters on TLC are gay

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

If my kid grew up thinking a throuple was a good idea or healthy I would think I failed as a parent.

Agree. I don’t want my kids marrying same sex. Nor do I want them to marry interracial. It’s just the way I was raised and I don’t want to see this behavior on my tv.

Sorry not sorry.

But I’m still open and accepting of everyone. I just set a different set of standards for my two daughters.

Um, no. I hope your daughters fall in love with black lesbians. Might as well throw Jewish in there, too.

+10000. Good luck with that, PP! It’s surprisingly hard to pass along bigotry — excuse me, a different set of standards — these days.

[Anonymous]

Polygamy is not cool.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

That is not a family. That is three people who like to get it on together.

You don't get to decide what makes a family a family. To me, family is anybody that you care about. It does not have to be a blood-based or marriage-based relationship.

Yes, I do get to decide for myself what makes a family a family. You clearly just decided for yourself, too.

You can decide what makes up YOUR family but you don’t get a say in anyone else’s family. MYOB.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

If my kid grew up thinking a throuple was a good idea or healthy I would think I failed as a parent.

Agree

I would think I failed as a parent if my kids turned out to be bigots like the two of you! You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Exactly this.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Justice Kennedy.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

That is not a family. That is three people who like to get it on together.

You don't get to decide what makes a family a family. To me, family is anybody that you care about. It does not have to be a blood-based or marriage-based relationship.

Yes, I do get to decide for myself what makes a family a family. You clearly just decided for yourself, too.

You can decide what makes up YOUR family but you don’t get a say in anyone else’s family. MYOB.

I can decide for myself what makes a family, and I can also decide that your girlfriend, her girlfriend's occasional lover, your next door neighbor, and your teacher from the third grade are not a family. But I'm amused that people who decide to choose such a lifestyle care so much what other people think. I don't "get a say in anyone else's family," but I am free to form an opinion on whether that is actually your family. It isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:That's not something I want to see normalized for my kids.

I didn't know that Anna Duggar and her child molester husband had moved back to the DC area! Is that you, Anna?

NP. Now that’s a relationship I don’t want normalized for my children. Stay constantly pregnant by a pedophile? Nope.

We have gay friends in decades long relationships. Some now legally married. Some with kids. Their lives are pretty boring and not different from the straight couples I know.
—middle aged practicing Catholic mom

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Anonymous wrote:That's not something I want to see normalized for my kids.

I didn't know that Anna Duggar and her child molester husband had moved back to the DC area! Is that you, Anna?

NP. Now that’s a relationship I don’t want normalized for my children. Stay constantly pregnant by a pedophile? Nope.

We have gay friends in decades long relationships. Some now legally married. Some with kids. Their lives are pretty boring and not different from the straight couples I know.
—middle aged practicing Catholic mom

This thread isn't about gay marriage or gay couples. This is about polygamy, in particular polygyny.

- middle aged atheist mom

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Anonymous wrote:Americans are such prudes.

As opposed to..? Don't say the French. At least they have the sense to have affairs and leave it at that. This is exhausting American nonsense.

I was just about to say this. Throuples are certainly no more common or accepted outside the US. Most of the world is much more conservative than the United States.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

If my kid grew up thinking a throuple was a good idea or healthy I would think I failed as a parent.

Agree. I don’t want my kids marrying same sex. Nor do I want them to marry interracial. It’s just the way I was raised and I don’t want to see this behavior on my tv.

Sorry not sorry.

But I’m still open and accepting of everyone. I just set a different set of standards for my two daughters.

Um, no. I hope your daughters fall in love with black lesbians. Might as well throw Jewish in there, too.

+10000. Good luck with that, PP! It’s surprisingly hard to pass along bigotry — excuse me, a different set of standards — these days.

I have not seen anyone mention their race or religion. So how do you know the posters are white? And what makes you think a black poster is automatically more supportive of throuples or even lesbians? Or a Jewish person? The irony is that support for LGBTA policies are a lot lower among AAs and Latinos.

Perhaps you're indulging in your own bigotry?

I have a feeling if it was polygamy, a guy married to two women, rather than this throuple, some of you who bask in your "tolerance" would be far less supportive. Probably because the association with polygamy is conservative Mormonism or very extreme religious cults. But in reality what's the difference?

[Anonymous]

Holy crap there are still people who object to interracial marriage?

To think I got banned for a week for saying a certain deceased athlete was a rapist but that lady just here chilling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy crap there are still people who object to interracial marriage?

To think I got banned for a week for saying a certain deceased athlete was a rapist but that lady just here chilling.

It was a troll.