Married but can also have a girlfriend?

[Couch Snake]

I'm married to Haley and simply because I was gonna get off I noticed I could still get bonquets to date someone with. I noticed I had full hearts with Leah and thought I'd experiment and see what'd happen if I gave her it. Well I did and now have Leah as a girlfriend but Haley as a wife. I quit so it wouldn't save but it did bring up a question. What would happen if I let that continue?

[KaosReigns]

Nothing in the end, because you can only ever buy one mermaid pendant. The girlfriend/boyfriends are the ones you dont need to raise hearts with, even to get the achvs.

[Couch Snake]

And the wife will have no form of reaction to this? it seems in the most case you can't really divorce (without editing the save)

[Optimus Princeps]

Why should my wife care? If she is not ok with me being free then why even bother getting married. I should be able to sleep with whoever I want.

If she tries anything with anybody tho Ill kill her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rio]

Hate to say it, but being married doesn't mean people cannot have boyfriends or girlfriends in this day and age. And stardew is kind of like a more modern harvest moon in many ways (Minus some things like cohabitation before marriage).

[Couch Snake]

Huh.....well that's a depressing fact about the day and age, either way thanks?

[KaosReigns]

Originally posted by Promise:

Hate to say it, but being married doesn't mean people cannot have boyfriends or girlfriends in this day and age. And stardew is kind of like a more modern harvest moon in many ways (Minus some things like cohabitation before marriage).

Polygamy is still frowned upon in most civilised places of the world. So this is pretty much a completely false statement. Sounds to me like someone cheated and is trying to make him/herself feel better about it.

The only exception I can think of is when a girl refers to another one of her female friends as a girlfriend. I challenge you to find many guys that would refer to their guy friends as a boyfriend. Somehow, I doubt this is the way you meant it though.

[Rio]

I no doubt that Polygamy will stay frowned upon as it means to be married to more than one person at the same time. (Though anything is possible).

And that marriage itself is in the decline.

[Couch Snake]

Wow like seriously, this got real like fast. Like this got real REAL fast. But I was just trying to see if anything happened or if it was merely something left in that wasn't exactly meant to be done. or possibly it's just left it for the same reason you can have a duck beak in this game, merely for something to add story onto? Hell if I know but you know what? I'm gonna go feed my duck- farmer! farmer....some bread.

[Rio]

Your wife can get upset when you gift another single, even on thier birthday. But other than that, nothing really. Some ten heart events are pretty intense like penny's, which I believe can happen even if you are currently married.


Personally I'd rather early into the relationship all singles ask you a question like "Do you think I look attractive?" or "Think you could see me with someone like you?" if you answer no the rest of the heart events are non-romantic.

[Hexerin]

Marriage is a religious act. It's simply because the majority of modern religions (esp Catholicism) consider polygamy a "sin" or whatever, that it is frowned upon.

Just another reason that religion is idiotic.

[Rio]

Originally posted by Hexerin:

Marriage is a religious act. It's simply because the majority of modern religions (esp Catholicism) consider polygamy a "sin" or whatever, that it is frowned upon.

Just another reason that religion is idiotic.

Marriage is more a government than religious act imo. And government is what enforces it in a divorce. And the main benefits like tax breaks are through government,

You don't have to use a church or priest, but can find a justice of the peace, which is an officer of the judicial branch (Government). People without any religion at all do get married. Sometimes people, who religion greatly opposes as a couple are able to marry, if its the will of the majority of voters of that state because government law trumps religion.

Marriage either includes religion or it doesn't, but legal marriage always involves government.

If the power over marriage was given only to church and the church had the authority to handle infractions of it. Then I could easily agree its probably a religious act. But currently I see it as a contract with the government. And if you fail that contract it is the government, not church which judges you.

[Hexerin]

The only reason the government is involved is because our government has been in steady decline for decades. Marriage was originally a religious thing, but at some point the law of "seperation of church and state" started getting ignored and now marriage has legal repercussions. It's absurd, and just another reason the global community laughs at us.

[ffets]

Originally posted by Promise:

Marriage is more a government than religious act imo.

For me, marriage is a social issue. It structurizes society and tries to give children a solid base to be raised on. But it narrows also down the possibilties to just that single scheme, which is kind of sad in my eyes.

Therefore, I befriended all of the 10 marriageable characters in the game and gave each one a bouquet and raised all oft them to 10 hearts. This works quite well, although my husband (Elliot) got a bit jealous from time to time. His problem, not mine.

[Cougarific]

Newsflash: Infidelity happens. Right now, as I type this, thousands of people all over the world are having sexual relations with someone other than their spouse. It's the people who think "that will never happen to me" who get hurt the worst when it happens to them.

[Lin]

Murder and animal abuse also happen, as well as spousal abuse. Can I murder Pam plox? They going to let us kick our dog/cat maybe? Maybe someone really feels inclined to beat some sense into Penny, idk. Live and let live. c: