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As we previously reported, it got really real on Twitter last week when rapper Lord Jamar took shots at actor Omar Epps for wearing what he said was a "skirt" during a recent visit to the daytime talk show "The View". Epps was there to speak about his new TV drama series "Resurrection".
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Raipur, March 22, 2011: The Gram Suraj Campaign of Chhattisgarh government would be started from April 19, next, officials said today.
The Gram Suraj Abhiyan would start from April 19 and continue up to April 29, next, officials told ChhattisgarhTopNews.Com.
The entire campaign has been divided into two parts and after covering the first part from April 19 to 23, the Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh would carry out the second part from April 25 to 29, they said.
During the ten days campaign, the Chief Minister would make sudden landing at any place of the state and could take stock of the situation at the ground.
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SEOUL, South Korea – Across North Korea, soldiers are gearing up for battle and shrouding their jeeps and vans with camouflage netting. Newly painted signboards and posters call for "death to the U.S. imperialists" and urge the people to fight with "arms, not words."
But even as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is issuing midnight battle cries to his generals to ready their rockets, he and his million-man army know full well that a successful missile strike on U.S. targets would be suicide for the outnumbered, out-powered North Korean regime.
Despite the hastening drumbeat of warfare – seemingly bringing the region to the very brink of conflict with threats and provocations – Pyongyang aims to force Washington to the negotiating table, pressure the new president in Seoul to change policy on North Korea, and build unity inside the country without triggering a full-blown war.
North Korea wants to draw attention to the tenuousness of the armistice designed to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula, a truce Pyongyang recently announced it would no longer honor as it warned that war could break out at any time.
In July, it will be 60 years since North Korea and China signed an armistice with the U.S. and the United Nations to bring an end to three years of fighting that cost millions of lives. The designated Demilitarized Zone has evolved into the most heavily guarded border in the world.
It was never intended to be a permanent border. But six decades later, North and South remain divided, with Pyongyang feeling abandoned by the South Koreans in the quest for reunification and threatened by the Americans.
In that time, South Korea has blossomed from a poor, agrarian nation of peasants into the world's 15th largest economy while North Korea is struggling to find a way out of a Cold War chasm that has left it with a per capita income on par with sub-Saharan Africa.
The Chinese troops who fought alongside the North Koreans have long since left. But 28,500 American troops are still stationed in South Korea and 50,000 more are in nearby Japan. For weeks, the U.S. and South Korea have been showing off their military might with a series of joint exercises that Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for invasion.
On Thursday, the U.S. military confirmed that those drills included two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers that can unload the U.S. Air Force's largest conventional bomb – a 30,000-pound super bunker buster – powerful enough to destroy North Korea's web of underground military tunnels.
It was a flexing of military muscle by Washington, perhaps aimed not only at Pyongyang but at Beijing as well.
In Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un reacted swiftly, calling an emergency meeting of army generals and ordering them to be prepared to strike if the U.S. actions continue. A photo distributed by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency showed Kim in a military operations room with maps detailing a "strike plan" behind him in a very public show of supposedly sensitive military strategy.
The head of Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the Federal Intelligence Service, told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that North Korea's aggressive rhetoric is "not completely new," citing past provocations.
"To sum up: we assume that North Korea does not want a war," Gerhard Schindler was quoted as saying.
North Korea cites the U.S. military threat as a key reason behind its need to build nuclear weapons, and has poured a huge chunk of its small national budget into defense, science and technology. In December, scientists launched a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket using technology that could easily be converted for missiles; in February, they tested an underground nuclear device as part of a mission to build a bomb they can load on a missile capable of reaching the U.S.
However, what North Korea really wants is legitimacy in the eyes of the U.S. – and a peace treaty. Pyongyang wants U.S. troops off Korean soil, and the bombs and rockets are more of an expensive, dangerous safety blanket than real firepower. They are the only real playing card North Korea has left, and the bait they hope will bring the Americans to the negotiating table.
Narushige Michishita, director of the Security and International Studies Program at Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, isn't convinced North Korea is capable of attacking Guam, Hawaii or the U.S. mainland. He says Pyongyang hasn't successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
But its medium-range Rodong missiles, with a range of about 800 miles, are "operational and credible" and could reach U.S. bases in Japan, he said.
More likely than such a strike, however, is a smaller-scale incident, perhaps off the Koreas' western coast, that would not provoke the Americans to unleash their considerable firepower. For years, the waters off the west coast have been a battleground for naval skirmishes between the two Koreas because the North has never recognized the maritime border drawn unilaterally by the U.N.
As threatening as Kim's call to arms may sound, its main target audience may be the masses at home in North Korea.
For months, the masterminds of North Korean propaganda have pinpointed this year's milestone Korean War anniversary as a prime time to play up Kim's military credibility as well as to push for a peace treaty. By creating the impression that a U.S. attack is imminent, the regime can foster a sense of national unity and encourage the people to rally around their new leader.
Inside Pyongyang, much of the military rhetoric feels like theatrics. It's not unusual to see people toting rifles in North Korea, where soldiers and checkpoints are a fixture in the heavily militarized society. But more often than not in downtown Pyongyang, the rifle stashed in a rucksack is a prop and the "soldier" is a dancer, one of the many performers rehearsing for a Korean War-themed extravaganza set to debut later this year.
More than 100,000 soldiers, students and ordinary workers were summoned Friday to Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang to pump their fists in support of North Korea's commander in chief. But elsewhere, it was business as usual at restaurants and shops, and farms and factories, where the workers have heard it all before.
"Tensions rise almost every year around the time the U.S.-South Korean drills take place, but as soon as those drills end, things go back to normal and people put those tensions behind them quite quickly," said Sung Hyun-sang, the South Korean president of a clothing maker operating in the North Korean border town of Kaesong. "I think and hope that this time won't be different."
And in a telling sign that even the North Koreans don't expect war, the national airline, Air Koryo, is adding flights to its spring lineup and preparing to host the scores of tourists they hope will flock to Pyongyang despite the threats issuing forth from the Supreme Command.
War or no war, it seems Pyongyang remains open for business.
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text: Huh, so it's my 4k post, I'll make another RMT out of it. I haven't posted RMT in ages, and I have a really fun one right now so I'll do it. Everyone knows that the Ubers ladder is horrible, so I can get away with using stupid ass teams and still win. However, trickroom, Sweep and I stick around on #ubers quite a bit so we tend to try out theme teams and all sorts of gimmicks. This setup was one I had made ages ago, though, and is probably one of my favourite gimmicks ever. This team looks like incredibly unviable, having 4 SR weak mons, 2 of which are 4x weak, no Kyogre check whatsoever and no Steels to tank Dragons. However, try asking the numerous opponents that have bowed down to it, and you'll find there's way more to this than meets the eye! Basically, the team revolves around switching Drought mons into Kyogre and then trapping it with Wobbuffet. As for other weather conditions, or even non-Choiced Kyogre... well, I just improvise. Anyway, I know Sweep has already made a highly successful Charizard RMT, but this team is just more badass and 100x ballsier. Team Building Process: [Groudon][Ninetales][Vulpix][Wobbuffet] This team originally was a triple Drought team. Vulpix was pretty much Will-O-Wisp / Hypnosis / Roar / Sunny Day for the sun and doing as much as possible to not get set up on. [Groudon][Ninetales][Vulpix][Wobbuffet][Espeon] So I guess to safeguard both Ninetales and Vulpix (both had Sash), I needed Stealth Rock off the field. Rapid Spinning is hard to pull off a lot of the time, and with the kind of team I was building, it was pretty much "keep SR off or die". I actually originally picked Espeon, just because I wanted some offensive presence. I had Calm Mind / Psyshock / Hidden Power Fire / Moonlight, and it worked for a little bit... I suppose. [Groudon][Ninetales][Wobbuffet][Espeon][Ho-oh][Reshiram] So this was the first version of my team. I realised Vulpix was unnecessary, so I got rid of him. With presumed sun and no hazards, the obvious choice was stack the rest of the team with hard hitting Fire-types. Ho-oh and Reshiram immediately came to mind. [Groudon][Ninetales][Wobbuffet][Xatu][Ho-oh][Blaziken] So I realised that I needed some Speed in the team otherwise Darkrai, Skymin and Mewtwo just about ran circles around me. I decided to replace Reshiram, which wasn't pulling its weight with Blaziken, and it worked relatively well for a while. I also replaced Espeon, mainly because I realised Xatu did pretty much everything better, since it could switch into Earthquake and not get demolished in two hits by Groudon. [Groudon][Ninetales][Wobbuffet][Xatu][Ho-oh][Arceus-Fire] This is when I started playing around with the team. This is pretty much the team in which I decide plug *insert Fire-type* into the team and see how it did. I've pretty much stuck every Fire-type even remotely worth using into this setup (into Fire Arceus's place). I've put in Magcargo, Volcarona, Houndoom and Camerupt. I could have put in some other Fire-types, but we know enough about the relatively good ones (eg Arcanine, Darmanitan, Victini and Heatran). Fire Arceus, apart from good old Charizard (which I'll get to), was my favourite. Nothing stood in the way of the mighty SD Fireceus. Nothing. [Groudon][Ninetales][Wobbuffet][Xatu][Ho-oh][Charizard] So Sweep and trickroom were having so much fun with Charizard I decided "why the hell not". It fit in really well, the base 100 Speed lets it revenge kill a lot of things when you put a Scarf onto it. Charizard is indeed too powerful for Ubers. Team in detail: Groudon @ Life Orb Trait: Drought EVs: 252 Atk / 4 HP / 252 Spd Jolly Nature - Stealth Rock - Earthquake - Stone Edge - Fire Punch Obviously if you want Drought, you'd use Groudon. I picked the fast lead since 1) Stealth Rock is good, and 2) this thing is pretty much the only thing that can kill Dialga immediately to prevent it from setting up Stealth Rock. Defensive Groudon may last longer, but can't OHKO standard Dialgas. Obviously, if they can tank the EQ and set up Stealth Rock then I'm fucked immediately. I have double sun anyway, so Groudon can afford to be less bulky. Anyway, this set is obviously there so Groudon can OHKO Dialga and Tyranitar unless they try something weird (like max HP / max Def Bold Dialga, Balloon Dialga or Tyranitar), in which case you'd probably see me ragequit immediately. The moves are all pretty standard. Stealth Rock for Stealth Rock, Earthquake for STAB, Stone Edge for Ho-oh, Fire Punch for Ferrothorn. It's really surprising how many people attempt to switch in their Ho-oh into Groudon, thinking that they can wall it. I guess that's what happens when you have people using the dumbest Groudon set ever (SR / EQ / Fire Punch / Thunder Wave). Seriously, if your Groudon loses to Ho-oh, it should either be that you got speed crept (relatively legit), Stone Edge misses (also legit), or you're just plain stupid (see above moveset). Unless that Pokemon is something like Forretress, the more Pokemon you give Ho-oh free switches to when running a sun team, the more stupid you are. Ninetales @ Focus Sash Trait: Drought EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 Def Timid Nature - Sunny Day - Overheat - Hidden Power [Ice] - Toxic So here's the first non-standard thing you'll see on my team. Ninetales is on the large part, useless, since it's just death fodder to bring sun back into the game and let Wobbuffet fuck Kyogre up. It sounds a bit like a certain Magic Bouncer that a lot of people have a fetish for on the ladder. Anyway, apart from setting up sun and dying, I guess Ninetales hasn't been COMPLETE dead weight. If I can keep the Sash (which isn't TOO hard) on Ninetales, I can pull off some emergency revenge kills with Ninetales, or clutch Toxic something, which is always cool. For example, Ninetales can revenge kill a Rayquaza with HP Ice, or a 60% ExtremeKiller with Overheat. It can make it a lot harder for stuff like Rock Arceus to set up by using Toxic on it. All in all, Ninetales is mostly useless, but I tend to salvage what I can. Ho-Oh @ Choice Band Trait: Regenerator EVs: 248 HP / 228 Def / 32 Spd Impish Nature - Sacred Fire - Brave Bird - Sleep Talk - This may look really awkward, but this Ho-oh variant is utterly amazing. This was originally physically defensive Ho-oh with Roost and Whirlwind and Leftovers. Its physical bulk, when invested, really wowed me. It could take stuff like +2 ExtremeSpeed from Ekiller without too much trouble at all and either burn it or Whirlwind it out (although that may be due to Ekiller being a pussy). I'm pretty sure I've seen it take Stone Edge from defensive Groudon as well. However, I want really missed how hard Ho-oh could hit but I didn't want to take off its bulk. So, the easy way was to just slap a Choice Band on it. It turned out pretty well. It hit even harder than it used to, yet I get to keep all that amazing physical defense. Roost isn't missed TOO much, since Ho-oh has Regenerator anyway. So now, Ho-oh can take about 70% from +2 Ekiller and deal about the same amount of damage in return with sun boosted Sacred Fire, for example. It only has three moves since that's pretty much all Ho-oh needs. Sleep Talk is so I can switch into Darkrai, and I didn't want to put in a third attack like Earthquake since Ho-oh doesn't really need it anyway, and it'll just interfere with Sleep Talk. The EVs aren't anything too specific, I put 32 Spe to speed creep a bit, 248 to go in HP for an odd number and the rest in Defense. Arceus (Charizard) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Solar Power EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 Def Timid Nature - Fire Blast - Air Slash - Focus Blast - Hidden Power Ice The most fantastic Pokemon to have ever existed. Charizard is alpha and amiga. This Pokemon is just too powerful for Ubers. If there was one to represent the perfect Pokemon, it would this thing. Anyway, Charizard was another one of those fun Fire-types I decided to try out because I had nothing better to do since both Sweep and trickroom were having so much fun with it. It actually patched up a lot of problems that my team was having. For one, I needed a strong special attacker to OHKO Groudon immediately if they predict the Xatu switch in and Stone Edge it immediately. I also wanted a relatively fast revenge killer that could revenge kill Deoxys-A, which is a massive pain since it can kill Xatu and then set up Rocks. Fortunately, Charizard could actually do both. What set Charizard apart from Fire Arceus, which I had previously, was that if Xatu went down to Deo-A (which wasn't uncommon, that thing is a real pest), Charizard could potentially outspeed and Air Slash flinch the bastard, preventing Rocks from going up, which can be huge. Focus Blast wrecks Tyranitar switch-ins, and HP Ice can help me revenge kill Rayquaza. This Pokemon totally deserves the nickname "Arceus", even more than Arceus itself. On the side note, Mega Charizard is getting Drought! Fuck yes Charizard is the most amazing Pokemon ever. Charizard would be a far better Drought inducer than shitty Ninetales. It has Focus Blast to get past Tyranitar instead of playing around Will-O-Wisp and hope he doesn't Choice Band Stone Edge you. Even though Charzard is 4x weak to Stealth Rock, at least it has Roost to help it last a bit longer, unlike Ninetales who only has Pain Split, and... Protect and Leftovers? Yeah Ninetales sucks. In fact, most Fire-types would be better than Ninetales at summoning Drought. Arcanine has better stats, Close Combat to swat aside Tyranitar, Wild Charge to kill Politoed and ExtremeSpeed to revenge kill things, along with Morning Sun to heal itself. Hell, even Flareon and Magcargo would be better Drought inducers. At least Flareon has a boss Special Defense, Wish to heal itself and Superpower to fuck over Tyranitar. Magcargo has a 4x Fire resistance, which is pretty priceless on sun, as well as Stealth Rock and Recover. Fuck yeah, Charizard would be amazing. Down with Ninetales. Xatu @ Leftovers Trait: Magic Bounce EVs: 248 HP / 252 Spd / 8 SAtk Timid Nature - Calm Mind - Grass Knot - Roost - Heat Wave So I guess the last two Pokemon is what I use to keep this team together. Xatu is pretty much the only thing this team has to stop itself getting butchered by Stealth Rock. However, Xatu does a really good job at this anyway. Against all the slow leads (Forretress, Skarmory, Ferrothorn), Xatu completely walls them. For stuff like Dialga, I tend to just OHKO them with Groudon, or for Groudon, I OHKO that with Charizard. Xatu can come in and take a Draco Meteor and die if I'm stuck on the wrong Pokemon. However, Xatu CAN actually beat defensive Dialga one on one if I switch into Stealth Rock or Thunder Wave or something. Xatu can survive a Draco Meteor (from defensive only) after a Calm Mind, then just spam Roost a couple of times. It can actually be a win condition against a bunch of stall teams if I get rid of their hard hitter. I picked Grass Knot and Heat Wave as they are Xatu's best ways of removing problematic Stealth Rock users. Grass Knot does a reasonable amount of damage to Groudon, which is an annoying fucker to this team if it carries Stealth Rock. Xatu can actually take a Stone Edge from Groudon that lacks Attack investment. I AM thinking about changing this to Scarf Xatu with U-turn so I can better take on Deoxys-A, although losing a stallbreaking mon kind of sucks. Now I know there's going to be people arguing against me about how Xatu is shit and Espeon is the god of Pokemon, but fuck that. I've used both in this spot and Xatu is clearly superior. I found that out the hard way when Espeon got 2HKOed by Deoxys-S in the sun. I like it when my Magic Bouncer CAN stop the best entry hazard user in the game, thanks. Wobbuffet @ Leftovers Trait: Shadow Tag EVs: 28 HP / 228 Def / 252 SDef Calm Nature - Encore - Mirror Coat - Counter - Safeguard Wobbuffet is an amazingly underrated Pokemon. The stuff this thing can do for a team is amazing. Its bulk allows it to revenge kill virtually any revenge killer except for THE most powerful, while Encore provides amazing setup opportunities. The main reason for Wobbuffet on the team is basically stage 2 of Operation Kill Kyogre. After Ninetales (or if really needed, Groudon) dies, Wobbuffet comes into a Choice locked Kyogres and Mirror Coat it to hell. Obviously, defensive Kyogres are not as simple to take out, but since they are not as powerful, they are easier to play around with powerful attacks from Ho-oh and Groudon. Still, even if Kyogre is defensive or completely absent, Wobbuffet is still incredibly useful. Usually, Ho-oh in the sun counters Palkia really well, but if Wobbuffet is doing well and there's no Kyogre, I may send in Wobbuffet instead. Even if Palkia crits with Spacial Rend, Wobbuffet can survive and destroys it. I really shake my head when people do silly stuff like send in EKiller straight after I trap something and then try to set up... and then keep going when I send in Ho-oh or Groudon, or whatever. Stupid, stupid people. Key threats covered: Kyogre: - Choice sets are completely demolished by Ninetales and Wobbuffet. It doesn't even matter if you predict the switch to death-fodder Ninetales, you're either swithing Kyogre out and sun comes back in... or you kill Ninetales/Groudon and promptly get it killed by Wobbuffet. You can't win the weather war with a Choice Kyogre. This is pretty much guaranteed (unless for some crazy reason I sack both Groudon AND Ninetales or lose Wobbuffet before that) - Defensive sets are a bit more annoying, but in exchange, they can't stand up to hard hits from Groudon and Ho-oh repeatedly. ExtremeKiller: - What a shit Poke. I might not appear to have a solid check to it, but it wouldn't really do shit most of the time. It can't OHKO Ho-oh, who would usually do about 70% back with Sacred Fire, burning it a lot of the time. Groudon lops 50% off it with EQ while tanking an ExtremeSpeed. Even if it gets past Ho-oh or Groudon, Ninetales can usually take it out with Overheat in the sun while surviving due to Focus Sash. Ghostceus: - Ho-oh decks the shit out of this thing. SD Ghostceus is shit so we're not going to talk about him, unless you're talking about Shadow Force, which STILL can't KO Ho-oh. Mewtwo: - Ho-oh can take an attack and brutalise it with Sacred Fire. Charizard can OHKO with Fire Blast. Wobbuffet fucks it over. Darkrai: - Officially the most misused Pokemon in the whole tier. Ho-oh with Sleep Talk fucks it over, although sometimes I send it Xatu and bounce back Dark Void for those silly nubs who spam it turn 1 (which are a lot). Deoxys-A: - Probably the biggest common threat to the team. Sometimes I really consider switching to Scarf Xatu with U-turn just so I can play more mindgames with this thing. For now, Xatu can bring in down to Sash a lot of the time as long as they don't have Ice Beam or Dark Pulse, a if all else fails, Charizard attempts to Air Slash flinch it, which works sometimes :D. Groudon: - Is pretty annoying, especially when there are more than one potential Stealth Rock user on the opposing team. Grass Knot was used over Psyshock on Xatu specifically there to damage Groudon more than anything else. Fortunately, Xatu can take one Stone Edge from defensive Groudon and Grass Knot it for quite a lot of damage. What will be annoying is when the opponent has SR on something else and Groudon is an offensive variant, OHKOing Xatu right from the get-go :(. Charizard can OHKO the fucker with Fire Blast though. Tyranitar: - Is again annoying. Groudon can OHKO. Normally I can put enough pressure so TTar can't set up SR without risk dying (eg have Charizard in to Focus Blast it), but I really need to be predicting dead on centre or I'm pretty fucked. Dialga: - Normally pretty easy to take care of. Most people don't realise that the opposing Groudon could potentially OHKO your stupid Dialga with LO Earthquake. That said, max HP / max Def Bold Dialgas can go to hell, because they can survive an Earthquake. Xatu can actually set up on Dialga with Calm Mind Roost as long as it doesn't switch into an attack, which is nice (which a lot of people tend to be so focussed on setting up Stealth Rock that they fail to notice Xatu in the background, lol). Rockceus: - Forfeit - fortunately it's pretty rare. Wobbuffet and Encoring it into something detrimental is pretty much the only long term check to it. Groudon does quite a lot with EQ I guess, while Charizard can do a lot to it with Focus Blast. I did recently face a Stealth Rock Rockceus though. Needless to say, that game was over before it started. Surprise SR set up mons: - Yeah fuck you guys. SR Normal Arceus and other random mons like that really ruin my day :( Shout-outs: Ubers bros: - trickroom - Melee_Mewtwo - Sweep - Furai - Theorymon - Poppy - faint - Dice - CherubAgent - Donkey #penis bros: - mikel - jrp - Aurora - Enguarde - Frizy - skylight - Genesect - Hugendugen - MJB - butt


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I just can't seem to accept it.
No disrespect to the poly folks out there, but try as I might, I just don't understand it. Let me be clear, I don't pass judgement on it as being "wrong", provided that everyone involved is fully aware, consenting, and has their feelings taken into concern. But in my case, this is not something that I will ever be willing to accept in my household, and marriage.
I've posted about a month ago regarding my wife and her reveal to me that she considers herself to be poly, yet insists that the others involved are platonic, but does not have a problem with the possibility of things going further if her feelings change, and of course, I were to be on board.While I appreciate her consideration, I can say with absolute certainty, that I will NEVER be on board with her getting physical with another. We have a "closed" marriage, and it must continue to be so for me to be a part of it.
I know that poly people tend to view love as infinite. Personally, I don't. I think that love involves actions, just as much as feelings. And when one chooses to spend more time with another, leaving less time for someone else, it's impossible to accurately claim that they can love the two equally. Now, in my case, she says that she loves me far more than any of the others, yet, I've had to find myself practically begging for her attention. This has sent me into a tailspin, resulting in the worst 5 week stretch of my life. I've suffered sever anxiety, insomnia, have been in therapy, lost interest in work, loss of appetite, lost 19lbs, and have climbed to almost 2 packs/day. This has destroyed me both mentally and physically.
Upon discussing this matter daily, where she keeps insisting that I'm making mountains out of molehills, the fact that she kept continuing this, despite knowing the damage done, had left me actually considering leaving her. I came home one day & walked in the door in the midst of a severe panic attack, which was exacerbated by seeing her on a Skype call with the one she has been closest with. She took me in her arms & attempted to calm me down from hyperventilating. Once I sort of regained my composure, I just repeated "I can't do this anymore, I can't do this anymore". She began to grow frustrated & was disturbed that I felt that the ONLY way our marriage could move forward, was that she had to completely sever any & all contact with them, especially the one she had been closest with.
Now, understand that I've never had problems with her having friends online,or anywhere else. I also don't have a problem with her having male friends. I'm not jealous of her ability to have friendships with people. The fact is, that with this guy in particular, she was talking to him far more than most rational people would consider normal. Morning, noon & night, playing games, watching movies together via webcam on Skype - often 2 or 3 back to back, while I found myself doing everything I could to keep busy while waiting for her to throw me a bone every now & then. A few weeks ago, I came home early from work due to the upcoming holiday weekend (July 4), hoping to have a day with just her & I. Well, after we went to have a bite to eat, and came home, she went online to "watch a couple of movies" at 3pm. She didn't get offline until 2:30 am. Nearly 12 hours, and she didn't seem to see anything wrong with that. This was my breaking point, and the moment where I knew that this could not continue if our marriage is to survive. We discussed compromise, and she began to see my point a little more. Unfortunately, the damage has been done so greatly, that there never really was going to be a chance for us as long as they were in the picture.
I also had discovered, that this guy in particular, has made a habit out of getting involved in online relationships with married women. According to a mutual friend, my wife is #6 on his list. I had had a gut feeling about him that I didn't trust. But did everything I could to stuff it down for months. Once she revealed this side of her, my distrust of him only grew. And even though she claims that he has never given her the impression that he's after more than just a platonic friendship, I still didn't trust him. And I've heard the same BS over & over where people claim that by saying I don't trust him, is just like saying that I don't trust her. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is, that my job is to keep my family safe. And I could NEVER condone with wife telling another man that she "loves" him, knowing that he'd be all over her like a cheap suit the second the opportunity could present itself. Even if she were to reject him.
She revealed that there were 5 others. Although, she had not told 3 of them as of yet. And admits that she will likely never will based on my reaction to the other two. I have a huge problem with the fact that she discussed this with those two before telling me. If our marriage is first & foremost, then it should be us discussing it first. And as of now, she has promised to completely cut off contact with them.
Please understand, I'm not puffing my chest as though I "won" something. She's been noticeably upset over doing this. But as I told her, this is both of our marriage. And if one feels that they cannot be part of it based on certain conditions, then the other has a choice to make. I've always been raised under the philosophy that no one has the right to actively engage in activities that hurt those they love. If you're making your spouse uncomfortable, stop it.
While you can't stop your wife from being poly, she needs to decide if she wants to be poly and not in a relationship with you, or if she's willing to be mono to stay in a relationship with you.
She broke your trust by engaging in an emotional relationship with other people and not discussing it with you, so I can completely understand why you wouldn't be ok with continued involvement with those people. And while yes, she can be friends with anyone she wants, I also agree with you that staying online and skyping with someone for 12 hours a day isn't acceptable when it means she's neglecting her marriage with you.
Sounds like you've made yourself abundantly clear with what your expectations are in the marriage and what you can and can't accept. Unfortunately, it's now up to your wife to figure out what she wants in her relationship(s). You'll want to be careful that if she backs off an continues to be mono, that it doesn't turn into her resenting you years down the road. But that all just depends on whether she needs to be poly with other people, or just wants to be poly with other people but is happy to live without it.
Me (Breathemusic): 30, female, g/f of Sudo, sub to Mr. Hyde
Sudo: 36, male, dating me, married to Peach
Peach: 33, female, my metamour, married to Sudo, dating Joe
Joe: 31ish?, male, b/f of Peach, father of Bug
Mr. Hyde: 43, male, married w/ kids, my Dom
RCT (or Ty): 30, male, mono friend, future roommate in poly house, divorced, father to 5yo daughter (Lizzy)
If the situation is upsetting you to the point you are having panic attacks, then you definitely need to address it. Attempting to accept your wife's feelings/desires does not and should not require making yourself ill.
You approach to your marriage is far more possessive than I would be comfortable with, but I'm neither you nor your wife. What matters is what works and is comfortable for both of you.
Have you considered what you will do if your wife is unable to be part of a relationship that defines monogamy in such a way it dictates how to she related to people in platonic relationships? Or if she decides she is unable to be part of monogamy at all?
This is the really heartbreaking part of mono/poly relationships. If your wife is "wired" for poly (some of us are, some of us aren't), then your making this demand of her will, in the long run, be just as hurtful to her as the past time has been for you.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't make this demand--as I said before, if the situation is literally making you ill, you damn well need to do something about it. But just because she's accepted doesn't mean she might not be suffering. And if she is, eventually you'll be right back here, just on opposite sides of the same issue. You need to be aware of that possibility.
Thank you for your understanding. She keeps saying that, while she's not going to be "all shiny happy" for a while, she'll get over it. She seems to think that I'm being unreasonable in taking it this far, since she says that I've never had anything to worry about from the beginning. And while that may be true when it comes to anything sexual, I feel that it had to come to this point for her to understand that that was not my only concern. While I love her dearly, and would be devastated to see her go, she is a grown woman and I cannot "force" her to make any decision. I explained to her that, while I don't find it impossible to accept who she is (although, in 16 years of marriage, she's never once shown a single sign of it, making it a total shock), I don't feel that it's right for me to accept what she did. I also explained that who I am should also be accepted if that's what's expected of me. And I've been very adamant about my monogamy for as long as we've known each other.
Trust me, I've been called "possessive" more times, by more people than I can count. I really don't see myself in that way. Rather, I state clearly what I'm after in a relationship, and others can choose whether or not to accept it. This communication with the one guy in particular, has been going on for 9 months. I began to suspect something 6 months ago (the day after my Dad died), and still said nothing to try & stop it, until she brought up the poly conversation. That actually made it worse, because I was no longer able to dismiss my suspicions as irrational, now there was a distinct possibility that something more could have been, or eventually could be going on.
We've been together for 20 years, including our dating & engagement. What I want has not been a secret. I don't even have the "bring another girl into the bedroom just for fun" fantasies that a lot of guys do. My intentions are her & I and no one else. And up until recently, she's explained that those were hers as well. So yeah, I'm not just going to roll over & accept something that turns everything on its head.
I am also aware that there may be a time when she feels that it suffocates her too. She may feel the need to explore it to the point where she cannot contain herself. And if that happens, I'm sorry to say, but our marriage will be over in order for that to be possible. I don't want her to be unhappy, quite the opposite in fact. And if we cannot both be happy under the same parameters, then it wouldn't have ever been meant to be.
Honestly? It sounds like you're at an impasse. You want a closed marriage and will accept nothing less. She wants open (and has betrayed trust with her emotional relationships.) She says she'll close...but her actions speak differently. It doesn't matter if you saw signs previously. It doesn't matter if there were signs previously. This is where you are now. The choices I see are (simplistically put):
(1) Stay closed - you're happy, she's not
(2) Open - she's happy, you're not
(3) Divorce and each pursue the relationship style that you want with other people.
It's sad, but people do change and grow. And, frequently, in that process of change, they grow apart. Sometimes the most loving thing that we can do for ourselves and our partner is to let them go. (I was married for over 20 years so I do understand the pain that's involved in realizing that a relationship is no longer working in it's current form.) Just because we love someone does not mean we should be in a romantic relationship with them.
The only other thing I'd add is that if you've been called possessive many times, it may be in your best interest to really look at that. People are not possessions. Treating them as such is not loving behavior. Ultimately, it's destructive to the relationship and counterproductive to our own happiness.
I'm not discounting the possibility that we might be at an impasse. Honestly, the ball is in her court at the moment. She says that she's willing to remain in a closed marriage, and that she would have never wanted me to engage in a parameter that I wouldn't be comfortable or happy with. She says that ultimately, not having me would make her more unhappy than anything else. So what can I do, other than take her at her word on that?
Maybe those are the 3 choices, and maybe there's a fourth, assuming that she meant what she said. But either way, I would be perfectly willing to "set her free" (for lack of a better phrase) if she really needed that to be happy. I just know, that I could never be happy by opening up our marriage.
And yes, I know that people are not possessions. I've also never done anything to warrant making her, or anyone else feel that way. I've been called "possessive", but in reality, I don't think that it's been quite so justified. Is it "possessive" to not want your wife to neglect you in favor of someone online who lives on the opposite coast? Is it "possessive" to say that one shouldn't be spending 8-12 hours chatting with someone online? Is it "possessive" to get upset about waiting around for an extra hour and a half to leave, because her time with him took longer than she anticipated? Like I said, I've gone 8+ months of this happening almost daily without saying a word.
My husband used about two years to become comfortable with me even kissing someone else. There were lots of tears and scared feelings on each side. But I pretty much never did something's unless he was ok with it, and I did promise that unless he felt comfortablein the future I would never do it. I know in other relationships someone had said sorry, I have to do this, which can also work I guess, and relationships where one person just said sorry I need us mono and that was it, and they are still together. Different ways for different people.
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Sure, there are other options. Off the top of my head, the one I'd choose in your situation is to not make a decision. Table the discussion on closed/open relationship while working on myself and our marriage (and seriously looking at why I want what I want.) Then, readdress the issue at a later date, when we've addressed our own issues and the issues in our marriage. I didn't list that as an option for you because, by your own admission, you aren't open to anything but a monogamous relationship (it is your right to choose that.)
And, no, I do not think the things you've listed are possessive behaviors. They're reasonable expectations. However, if you've been called possessive many times, then it's reasonable to think that some of your behavior may possibly be possessive or rigid.
As for whether to believe your wife, I'd look at her actions over her words.
It's not the attraction that I can't handle. We're human being, and even I can be physically attracted to someone. It's the pursuit of anything beyond the recognition. I'm fully aware of how I'm coming across, but the truth is, that polyamory is completely unacceptable for me in our marriage. And I don't just draw the line at sexual contact. In my opinion, kissing, cuddling, and even hand holding is just as heart wrenching of an image as sex. Part of what has made our marriage so spectacular over the years, has been the ability to blend the emotional connection with the physical.
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