Jordan Peterson

much less the ideal, at your extreme peril. You know, when people came to see me who were unhappy and unfulfilled and often didn't know what to do with their lives, one of the guidelines that I used to help me and them navigate was, you should do what everyone else does unless you have a really good reason not to. Now, polyamory. Well, first of all, what the hell is that?

much less the ideal, at your extreme peril. You know, when people came to see me who were unhappy and unfulfilled and often didn't know what to do with their lives, one of the guidelines that I used to help me and them navigate was, you should do what everyone else does unless you have a really good reason not to. Now, polyamory. Well, first of all, what the hell is that?

Just because some dim-witted leftist hedonists came up with a new word doesn't mean that anything like that exists. It's already very, very difficult to negotiate a relationship over the long run. Let's call it a marriage. If you stay... religiously within the normative parameters. Now you want to Extend that, beyond that. That's your theory.

Just because some dim-witted leftist hedonists came up with a new word doesn't mean that anything like that exists. It's already very, very difficult to negotiate a relationship over the long run. Let's call it a marriage. If you stay... religiously within the normative parameters. Now you want to Extend that, beyond that. That's your theory.

Just because some dim-witted leftist hedonists came up with a new word doesn't mean that anything like that exists. It's already very, very difficult to negotiate a relationship over the long run. Let's call it a marriage. If you stay... religiously within the normative parameters. Now you want to Extend that, beyond that. That's your theory.

You think you're going to be sophisticated enough to negotiate the jealousies, the split of time, the perilous risks of intimacy with more than one person. And you think you're going to do that well, and that everyone else around you is going to know how to deal with that. Well, every single bit of that's delusional. Monogamy is a universal norm and ideal.

You think you're going to be sophisticated enough to negotiate the jealousies, the split of time, the perilous risks of intimacy with more than one person. And you think you're going to do that well, and that everyone else around you is going to know how to deal with that. Well, every single bit of that's delusional. Monogamy is a universal norm and ideal.

You think you're going to be sophisticated enough to negotiate the jealousies, the split of time, the perilous risks of intimacy with more than one person. And you think you're going to do that well, and that everyone else around you is going to know how to deal with that. Well, every single bit of that's delusional. Monogamy is a universal norm and ideal.

Not because people don't have proclivities in other directions, but because the human race hasn't found a solution that's stable, all things considered, balancing the needs of children, men and women and society, there's no solution to that problem other than monogamy. And I would also say, you're doing something that's bad by entering into a polyamorous relationship.

Not because people don't have proclivities in other directions, but because the human race hasn't found a solution that's stable, all things considered, balancing the needs of children, men and women and society, there's no solution to that problem other than monogamy. And I would also say, you're doing something that's bad by entering into a polyamorous relationship.

Not because people don't have proclivities in other directions, but because the human race hasn't found a solution that's stable, all things considered, balancing the needs of children, men and women and society, there's no solution to that problem other than monogamy. And I would also say, you're doing something that's bad by entering into a polyamorous relationship.

You're destabilizing the social norm. And for what? For your own benefit? For your own hypothetical benefit? First of all, that's a little on the selfish side, I might say. The guardrails are there for a reason. And you hope that your parents can somehow adapt to that. And that what? They're supposed to just say it's all right? That's what they're going to do if they love you.

You're destabilizing the social norm. And for what? For your own benefit? For your own hypothetical benefit? First of all, that's a little on the selfish side, I might say. The guardrails are there for a reason. And you hope that your parents can somehow adapt to that. And that what? They're supposed to just say it's all right? That's what they're going to do if they love you.

You're destabilizing the social norm. And for what? For your own benefit? For your own hypothetical benefit? First of all, that's a little on the selfish side, I might say. The guardrails are there for a reason. And you hope that your parents can somehow adapt to that. And that what? They're supposed to just say it's all right? That's what they're going to do if they love you.

They're not going to raise any objections to your strange experiment, right? And it's not like they knew the rules. Like, what are the rules? Oh, my son has two wives. Well, no one knows what to do with that. And so what that generally means, if you're exceptional, is that people aren't going to have much to do with you because you're too damn much trouble.

They're not going to raise any objections to your strange experiment, right? And it's not like they knew the rules. Like, what are the rules? Oh, my son has two wives. Well, no one knows what to do with that. And so what that generally means, if you're exceptional, is that people aren't going to have much to do with you because you're too damn much trouble.

They're not going to raise any objections to your strange experiment, right? And it's not like they knew the rules. Like, what are the rules? Oh, my son has two wives. Well, no one knows what to do with that. And so what that generally means, if you're exceptional, is that people aren't going to have much to do with you because you're too damn much trouble.

Well, I think I would have fought with you until I knew what the hell was going on. That's my general proclivity. The woman who asked this question, there's not a lot of detail in the question, so I don't know exactly why they're alienated. And it's a terrible thing to be alienated from your children.

Well, I think I would have fought with you until I knew what the hell was going on. That's my general proclivity. The woman who asked this question, there's not a lot of detail in the question, so I don't know exactly why they're alienated. And it's a terrible thing to be alienated from your children.

Well, I think I would have fought with you until I knew what the hell was going on. That's my general proclivity. The woman who asked this question, there's not a lot of detail in the question, so I don't know exactly why they're alienated. And it's a terrible thing to be alienated from your children.