Should Having Multiple Spouses Be an Option?

"MadameLee;c-18054033" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-18054020" wrote:
For me, it really depends on how it's handled. I'd probably be okay with it if it required getting the okay from all sims involved. I'd be less okay (adapting an "it would be better as a mod" stance) if a sim could have multiple independent families that don't know about each other, but I can still see value in that for drama's sake.
Situations where the original spouse(s) don't get input and they are all expected to live in the same house with each other would make me actively uncomfortable.

For the record, while I'm not poly, I know people who are, and everyone involved in those relationships are on the same page.

um I think you're confusing Polygamy (which is more then one spouse) with Polyamory (which means an "open relationship" sometimes three-way relation, or sometimes an "open relationship" and the couple see other people. Since when people talk about people being poly they generally mean the latter instead, of the former because of the whole "it's not legal" thing.

Even though my Dad has said when he worked the border he would see men bringing two full grown women in (sometimes with kids in the car) and if kids talk one of the two women was always called "aunt". But dad supsects the said "aunt" was the man's other spouse.

No, actually I'm answering the title question, which was about multiple spouses. There are several ways that can happen.

I'd be fine with modern Polyamory in the sims, though I have known one or two people involved in what they thought were Polyamorous relationships but someone involved didn't get the memo (or thought that they were the "special" one who got to have multiples while everyone else was to remain monogamous to them) and I'd rather not see that added to the game.

However, I'd be reluctantly okay with Polygamy (multiple wives)/Polyandry (multiple husbands) in the Drama sense, where one person has multiple spouses who may or may not know about each other. (For an example of one where they would know, there were cultures where certain trading concerns were owned and managed by a woman and the traders were her husbands)

I would not be okay with Polygamy/Polyandry in the sense where one person has multiple spouses and the spouses don't get a say but have to live together in the same household.