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Any suggestions:How to make polygyny emotionally acceptable?

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I am not suggesting brainwashing people into blindly believing something that is false because polygyny is truly good in some circumstances.

A lot of people do not reject polygyny for intellectual reasons, but for other reasons.

Then they start making illogical arguments full of logical fallacies.

For one it is common to tell stories to make people emotionally feel bad about polygyny?

Or to explain how it would make them feel bad? For example feelings of jealousy

Can any women in polygynous marriages explain how polygyny makes them feel good? For example what makes you feel good about sisterhood? When you are close sisters with someone what kind of good feelings do you enjoy? Do you think you can convince women that these same kind of good feelings are there when they share a wife with their husband?

Have any men have had success in making women feel good about polygyny?

Any other strategies for making it emotionally appealing other than describing it as emotionally appealing?
 
Re: Any suggestions:How to make polygyny emotionally accepta

DTT,

Go to this teaching article link:

viewtopic.php?f=57&t=1894

Read it fully and in it you'll see some of the physiological issues that are involved. Literally there has to be new molecular "wires" so to speak developed in the brain while old ones become the lesser dominating factors in the mental processes. Incremental mental development with new ideas to replace old ideas. This is one reason the all at once, drop the bomb, tell someone everything all at once in one conversation is not normally the loving, biblical, wise, or even smart way to approach the subject. It can literally cause a short circuit in the brain which leads to panic attacks, emotional shut downs, and extreme impulsive emotional responses, things which likely qualify as "destroying your brother" which Paul told us not to do in Romans 14.

This article covers the mental/brain aspects as to why it is hard to overcome and how to eventually overcome the negative emotions through new cords being grown in the brain.
 
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