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New TV show. A spin off of Married at First Sight titled: Poly at First Sight. The 3 people who now put couples together would do 1 man and 2 women (separate) Marriages. Could be a big hit. Literally.
I hope it's not on HBO!
There should be more TV shows with a Poly theme. A show with a positive theme would be helpful to those looking to expand. When you are not in a Church or do not come from a Plural background the pool is dry. No one knows what I`m talking about and then they give me dirty looks. Must be 1 million single mature women who are needlessly struggling in todays world.
I met my family on Yahoo Groups and now that's going away!
Maybe the answer is to try to grow BF? I know I'm telling a few nice people to come here and check it out.
"Life is a game of suffering that ends in death and all the things you acquire throughout life in an attempt to flee from the suffering will wither away in their graves along with you. The secret of this game is that the only things from this life you can take with you - the only things that will rise from the grave with you - are the intangible things that are acquired as a result of embracing your suffering and fighting through it. Meet your suffering head on and wear this duty as a crown, for in life, the things you acquire from this battle may be invisible but when you rise again, you will see them as they are – riches far beyond any Earthly value."
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Then of course we would have to remove the word "not" from the statement that says "This is not a dating site".I met my family on Yahoo Groups and now that's going away!
Maybe the answer is to try to grow BF? I know I'm telling a few nice people to come here and check it out.
I have written elsewhere on these threads that worrying that the government is going to train its sights on Biblical Families in regard to whether it is or isn't a dating site is to engage in an overly paranoid interpretation of the relevant laws. That we are "not a dating site" is, functionally, more a practical matter of not wanting to go to the effort of coordinating the web logistics of a situation in which, given the current state of things in our culture, the men looking would outnumber the women looking at least 100 to 1.
@MeganC, though, is truly onto something, and she has experience to back up her assertions. My main reaction to her earlier post was to kick myself for not knowing about Yahoo Groups before they shut them down! But anyone who has been to more than one of our gatherings knows that they are very reasonable places for providing, as she says, opportunities to meet like-minded people in a safe situation.
My friends from the Palatka gathering a couple years back also know that our gatherings can be an excellent place to bring potential partners, as both I and another brother brought women there who were seriously considering joining our families.
And our last two large summer gatherings each featured several single female attendees very much desiring to find families to join.
@MeganC, though, is truly onto something, and she has experience to back up her assertions. My main reaction to her earlier post was to kick myself for not knowing about Yahoo Groups before they shut them down! But anyone who has been to more than one of our gatherings knows that they are very reasonable places for providing, as she says, opportunities to meet like-minded people in a safe situation.
My friends from the Palatka gathering a couple years back also know that our gatherings can be an excellent place to bring potential partners, as both I and another brother brought women there who were seriously considering joining our families.
And our last two large summer gatherings each featured several single female attendees very much desiring to find families to join.
This is the problem.
I've said this before, but when I was in polygyny groups on FB I kept getting messages from men and women who were interested in me (the women for their husbands, obviously), even though I was married and was very clear about that when I wrote and on my own profile page. I don't think these people were wanting me to leave my husband, they just saw a woman and hoped she was single.
Now, if I got that many messages from people, then I can't imagine what it must be like to be a single woman in one of those groups.
I remember once hearing that a single gal who posted somewhere got 2 public replies and like 60 private messages. So it could certainly be off putting to draw that kind of volume in messages, and have to sort through so many hopeful people that one must suspect desperation is motivating at least some to write a stranger.
This is why it is good, but seldom heeded advice for couples looking to fill out a profile so one reading can get a realistic idea if who you ARE. Bare statistics like age height and weight don't tell you much about the unique being behind the avatar.
But truly, with first wife freak out a common occurence, a man with two already might stand a better chance.
Who knows. At least the married are not doing life alone. They have each other if a potential decides they are not a match. The single gal just ends up in lonelyville again.
Lonelyville is over run with crazy cat ladies or Some have "each other".
My squirrels don't know where I am tonight.
That's weird! I try to take a I Cor 7:39 approach to married women. Coupled with Matt 5:28, if I find myself admiring a woman that is likely to have a current or former husband who is still alive, I find myself averting my eyes quite a bit.
Well, I know I am looking forward to the next time we can have a retreat. I wish I could have attended the one held in Round Rock, or that the Temple, TX retreat had worked out!
My experience was pretty good I think because it was a small group like BF is. There were a few contacts and I met two couples in person and then met my family.
Start having even louder sex?
I had no toothpaste on my way to the last BF retreat I attended. Tried brushing my teeth using shampoo in a hotel. Bad idea. Don't do that.
Of course, the letters you were carrying could be rare and valued communications to inmates from their families back at home. Or official letters discussing the logistics of food delivery or sewage system repairs. You'd never know without opening them all, and if you started opening letters to work out whether a small handful of the 500 letters in your mailbag were ones you'd feel morally obliged to destroy, you wouldn't be a mailman for much longer.
Point is, I agree with @Keith Martin - this whole hypothetical scenario is silly.
And I agree with @steve that it's insufficiently random!
When I was a little boy, watching my father driving his 19-tonne digger, my greatest desire was to have a little 1 tonne digger of my own as it seemed the right size for a boy. Now I get to spend much of my day on a little 1.5 tonne digger, and will be doing so for the next few weeks. I'm in little boy heaven.
I always wanted a cement truck. Cement seemed like a miracle.
So many pastors stray from the word under the influence of chivalry.