Firstly, if the emotional bond in question was deep but there was no sexual, legal or spiritual bond, I don't think you would need a marriage. Marriage is one giant ball of legal, sexual/physical, emotional and (if getting married with or between religions) spiritual bonds. If there were two or more bonds in a relationship, then yeah, a 'marriage' would be needed. I've been reading too much stuff about how polygamy and polyamorous marriages could work, because my immediate answer is link/chain marriages. It's pretty much the textbook definition of multiple marriages but the two people married to one person could also decide to marry each other. It's easier than group marriage when someone wants to leave just one or both of their partners. Group marriage means the entire group is broken up, rather than just a link or two. As to whether someone is the first or second spouse, I don't think such distinctions should be made, except as rights to property or guardianship of children. Which should be sorted between the married parties personally rather than becoming a state matter.
But yeah, monogamy has been around too long for people to think outside the box for a solution to complex relations which isn't based on the monogamous blueprint. I think too that people are too rooted in the idea that marriage is a combination of legal AND sexual AND emotional (AND spiritual) bonds. Marriage is such a loaded word with all those connotations. There needs to be an acknowledgement that those bonds are all different and separate from each other. And perhaps we need separate marriages for each type.
PictBear is not compatible with tablets sadly. I played around with it and GIMP with my tablet today. No pressure sensitivty at all and the brush system still confuses me. It seems as if PictBear would be great for the person who wants something free and doesn't want the advanced functions of a Photoshop clone like GIMP but still wants something that isn't as basic as Paint and perhaps a bit more advanced than oekaki programs. Actually, it'd be a good offline program to use for oekaki. So I'm sticking with Photoshop and, now, GIMP.
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I've been reading too much stuff about how polygamy and polyamorous marriages could work, because my immediate answer is link/chain marriages. It's pretty much the textbook definition of multiple marriages but the two people married to one person could also decide to marry each other. It's easier than group marriage when someone wants to leave just one or both of their partners. Group marriage means the entire group is broken up, rather than just a link or two.
As to whether someone is the first or second spouse, I don't think such distinctions should be made, except as rights to property or guardianship of children. Which should be sorted between the married parties personally rather than becoming a state matter.
But yeah, monogamy has been around too long for people to think outside the box for a solution to complex relations which isn't based on the monogamous blueprint. I think too that people are too rooted in the idea that marriage is a combination of legal AND sexual AND emotional (AND spiritual) bonds. Marriage is such a loaded word with all those connotations.
There needs to be an acknowledgement that those bonds are all different and separate from each other. And perhaps we need separate marriages for each type.
PictBear is not compatible with tablets sadly. I played around with it and GIMP with my tablet today. No pressure sensitivty at all and the brush system still confuses me. It seems as if PictBear would be great for the person who wants something free and doesn't want the advanced functions of a Photoshop clone like GIMP but still wants something that isn't as basic as Paint and perhaps a bit more advanced than oekaki programs. Actually, it'd be a good offline program to use for oekaki.
So I'm sticking with Photoshop and, now, GIMP.