This couple's relationship is an example of the more common type of marriage, endogamy. My mother and my step-father are both from the same social group. Before marriage they lived in the same region and shared the same class, religion, education and nationality.
The only legal form of marriage in our society is monogomy: the practice of being in a relationship with only one person at a time. I as well as everyone in my social network (with a few exceptions) practices this style of relationship.
A nuclear family portrait on the beach. One heterosexual couple and their son.
Perhaps if we were living in a different culture, it might be acceptable for all three of us to have a polygamous marriage. In this case it would be polygyny, where one man has multiple wives.
Even though it is usually the women who you would think to be in the kitchen doing the cooking at night, my step-father is the one after work who has the second shift of making the family a delicious dinner.
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