I always assumed that it was like having kids, where some kind of social hardwiring stops you from having a favourite.
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Here's my thoughts on marriage in general: Over the last few decades, the laws on de-facto/common-law relationships have been strengthened in much of the Western world and the legal benefits of being married have thus been watered down. If this trend continues, we'll get to the point where a couple who have signed a marriage certificate will have no legal difference from a couple who just lives together in a committed relationship.
At that point, marriage will cease to exist as a legal concept. You'll still be able to have the ceremony if you like, and religions would still be able to specify who can get married within their flock, but the government won't get involved. And at that point, everyone will stop bitching about gay marriage and poly marriage and all that shit, because the concept of marriage will not be important any more.
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Basically this. If you remove the religious element, marriage is little more than a contract saying "we won't leave each other unless we really
really mean it", and a lot of people don't seem to take it even that seriously.
Anyone who's made vows of faithfulness to each other may as well write them down on a legally endorsed piece of paper; regardless of how many people those vows may concern. As Nate said, it's not like it makes a difference to anyone but themselves any more.