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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

That is not a family.  That is three people who like to get it on together.  [/quote]

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.

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

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.[/quote]

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