Punishing Infidelity: Can You Really Control Emotional Attraction To Another?

Today we examine three relationships in which one partner is attracted to someone outside of the relationship and doesn't know how to deal with their real emotion. The first, a man married for thirty years who finds himself madly in love with another woman who is also married, and the two of them have a "Me and Mrs. Jones" relationship. The second, a woman after ten years of marriage, realizes that for the last four years she has been emotionally involved wth her single co-worker as they spend late hours working on projects just so they can be together. The third, a man in a common law marriage, having lived with a woman for the past ten years, realizes he cannot marry her because emotionally he is still tied to a previous girlfriend. All feel trapped in situations where, as the song says, "Your body's here with me but your mind is on the other side of town." There are some societies where "polyamorism" is accepted as a natural, even a higher spiritually evolved way of life. Today we want to examine that concept. What would happen if people were free to love with honesty rather than shame, guilt, and fear of condemnation?