Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Her Pro's & Con's

I was talking to my wife and asked her to come up with a pro/con list of her own.  Here's what she came up with:

Pro's:
  • Housework
  • More incomes
  • Having a friend around all the time 
Con's:
  • Sharing my husband
  • Having a friend around all the time(lack of privacy)
  • More opinions
  • Jealousy
  • Having to hide from people
  • How do you explain it to your kids?
For the record, we currently don't have children but probably will in the shorter term (1-2 years).  I could guess most of her items and really appreciate her effort, although I know she hasn't thought about it as much as I have, but I expected that.  Honestly, her list indicates more thought than I figured she'd put into it so that was nice really.

After giving me her list I gave her the one I had come up with (for all three perspectives).  This was her reply (we were both at work chatting over IM):
"Just want you to know that I'm totally fine talking about it and even with the pro con list and stuff, I really am. But I'm not going to change my mind on participating in it..."
So no advancement on that front just now.  But that's alright, I know I still have lots of work to do in helping her gain a testimony of polygamy in general.  She's certainly not violently opposed to it like many people, I would say she's more neutral unless I'm saying it's what I want to do :-)

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