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  • Joleneakamama
    This is one I've read before and was looking for. In coming weeks I can make time to break it down into bullet points. Saving it without notes now, for later. https://bereantruthseeker.substack.com/p/rome-married-the-church-and-outlawed
  • MeganC
    MeganC replied to the thread Insistence on a separate home.
    :)
  • MeganC
    MeganC reacted to paterfamilias's post in the thread Insistence on a separate home with Like Like.
    I am with you on lots of houses on a ranch...it is the environment I grew up on myself. My notion is that the additional homes are for inlaws, extended family and small cottages for kids when they reach adulthood should they wish to use them or...
  • Joleneakamama
    I always felt there was no point in polygyny if it meant dividing the family. If you cannot get along....why do it? Another aspect of division is the help in the house goes away when each wife has her own kitchen.....or entire home to clean...
  • Joleneakamama
    I am with you on lots of houses on a ranch...it is the environment I grew up on myself. My notion is that the additional homes are for inlaws, extended family and small cottages for kids when they reach adulthood should they wish to use them or...
  • Joleneakamama
    Joleneakamama reacted to MeganC's post in the thread Insistence on a separate home with Like Like.
    If you were expecting an argument from me you won't get one. I think you're absolutely right all the way around. Even though we have a cluster of homes here these days the feeling is that this is all one place. For a smaller family with two...
  • Joleneakamama
    Yeah yeah. I know there have been other threads but it is slow in here at the moment and this crap just happened to me on Thursday night. Anyway, looking for a conversation with both sexes (it is sexes and not gender, don't make me lecture you...
  • paterfamilias
    I am with you on lots of houses on a ranch...it is the environment I grew up on myself. My notion is that the additional homes are for inlaws, extended family and small cottages for kids when they reach adulthood should they wish to use them or...
  • MeganC
    MeganC replied to the thread Insistence on a separate home.
    If you were expecting an argument from me you won't get one. I think you're absolutely right all the way around. Even though we have a cluster of homes here these days the feeling is that this is all one place. For a smaller family with two...
  • MeganC
    MeganC reacted to paterfamilias's post in the thread Insistence on a separate home with Heart Heart.
    Yeah yeah. I know there have been other threads but it is slow in here at the moment and this crap just happened to me on Thursday night. Anyway, looking for a conversation with both sexes (it is sexes and not gender, don't make me lecture you...
  • MeganC
    MeganC reacted to Chris H's post in the thread Evidence for Roman monogamy-only with Haha Haha.
    Ok, that was fire! Very well stated.
  • MeganC
    MeganC reacted to frederick's post in the thread Just Funny Memes with Haha Haha.
  • paterfamilias
    Yeah yeah. I know there have been other threads but it is slow in here at the moment and this crap just happened to me on Thursday night. Anyway, looking for a conversation with both sexes (it is sexes and not gender, don't make me lecture you...
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    Bartato reacted to steve's post in the thread Evidence for Roman monogamy-only with Like Like.
    The distinction would between living a monogamous marriage/lifestyle and having a monogamous marriage with various extracurricular activities. Either way, only monogamy was the only officially recognized marriage.
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    Bartato reacted to MeganC's post in the thread Evidence for Roman monogamy-only with Like Like.
    The Romans were not monogamous. They had mistresses, slaves, courtesans, and etc. and they certainly did what men do when they have a group of women at their service. Not unlike the current Congress.
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