Just Because Monogamy Is Difficult Doesn't Mean It's Wrong
It’s popular nowadays to claim that “monogamy is just too hard.” It’s used as a justification for why people don’t want to get married or engage in non-monogamous relationships. You might even hear that monogamy is unnatural.
After the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, the idea of monogamy and lifelong marriage seems to have gone out the window. Now, almost 60 years later, it’s become popular to promote various non-monogamous lifestyles, like polyamory or open relationships. Beneath most of the rhetoric, most proponents fall back on the same basic argument: Monogamy simply isn’t “natural” for human beings. They’ll argue that monogamy isn’t seen in nature among other animals, and that monogamy is a “recent” invention for humans. If we go back to nature they say, monogamy simply isn’t the way. The fact that monogamy is so difficult for many people to adhere to seems only to back up their stance.