Araraukar wrote:Wrapper wrote:*snip*
"That sounds like a very practical solution - are the spouse choices based just on just getting along well, or do you marry for love, or both? And if I ask anything too personal, just tell me so; different cultures consider different things taboos, and I don't want to offend just to sate my curiosity."
AHUME: Oh, not at all. I guess everyone marries for different reasons, but if you're asking why I married into the family, I primarily married for love. Darial, our senior husband. I was smitten with him for a long time before I had the nerve to talk to him.
ARI: Yes, what a shocker.
AHUME: And don't get me wrong, while I love our wives dearly, and yes that means exactly what you think it means in terms of intimacy, it's... hmmm... just not quite the same thing I guess, as it is with Darial. And I suppose that's not unusual in line marriages. We do all get along well, for sure, and that is a very important part in accepting a new spouse into the family. It's not something that's taken lightly.
ARI: Janis, I must say, I've met all of Ahume's spouses, and his kids, it is a wonderful family dynamic, but without a doubt it is not for everyone. Too much of Wrapper is comprised of monogamous cultures, that it would never be a widespread way of life. Nor would bachelorhood, come to think of it, I am very much in the minority in my own nation, moreso than Ahume.