Talking Big Love: Part One, continued
We gathered a few people together to see what they thought of the premiere episode of HBO's new series "Big Love." This is an excerpt from a conversation that included members of Centennial Park, a fundamentalist Mormon community at the Utah/Arizona border.
The second episode of "Big Love" airs Sunday.
On Relationships: The women
Marlyne Hammon: As women choose this lifestyle they become more like that first wife, more understanding, more willing to work with people and include them in their lives and giving of them. That is part of our goal, to become more like that.
People do suffer jealousies, we're all human, but when we buy into this you work with that with yourself. So you become more loving and kind and understanding of people around you.
Joyce Steed: In terms of jealousy, the human race is the human race and within our culture and outside our culture it runs the full spectrum. You have situations where someone comes into a family, it doesn't work, it's horrible and they leave the family. And you have other situations where they wouldn't have it any other way. We have gray-haired ladies who wouldn't live any other way.
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Marlyne: Boss lady, that is not how it is.
Ann Wright: That would turn into a problem. She is having problems anyway and that is not going to help her.
Marlyne: It got me where the three ladies are sitting around talking like he's a toy, bartering. Like he didn't have any say.
Priscilla Hammon: You have to have something deeper in your family. I don't see this family as ever being able to make it if their only thing is where the husband sleeps at night.
Ann: The whole idea that sex is just for recreation — we don't think of sex along those terms. There probably are people out there who think along those terms but we think of it as procreation, what it was given for and it's not a light issue, and certainly not something to be made fun of.
Joyce: It is overemphasized. In any marriage or relationship, how much of your life and relationship and family do you spend thinking about and worrying about sex? In reality, when you have jobs and kids, you worry about family.
The second episode of "Big Love" airs Sunday.
On Relationships: The women
Marlyne Hammon: As women choose this lifestyle they become more like that first wife, more understanding, more willing to work with people and include them in their lives and giving of them. That is part of our goal, to become more like that.
People do suffer jealousies, we're all human, but when we buy into this you work with that with yourself. So you become more loving and kind and understanding of people around you.
Joyce Steed: In terms of jealousy, the human race is the human race and within our culture and outside our culture it runs the full spectrum. You have situations where someone comes into a family, it doesn't work, it's horrible and they leave the family. And you have other situations where they wouldn't have it any other way. We have gray-haired ladies who wouldn't live any other way.
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Marlyne: Boss lady, that is not how it is.
Ann Wright: That would turn into a problem. She is having problems anyway and that is not going to help her.
Marlyne: It got me where the three ladies are sitting around talking like he's a toy, bartering. Like he didn't have any say.
Priscilla Hammon: You have to have something deeper in your family. I don't see this family as ever being able to make it if their only thing is where the husband sleeps at night.
Ann: The whole idea that sex is just for recreation — we don't think of sex along those terms. There probably are people out there who think along those terms but we think of it as procreation, what it was given for and it's not a light issue, and certainly not something to be made fun of.
Joyce: It is overemphasized. In any marriage or relationship, how much of your life and relationship and family do you spend thinking about and worrying about sex? In reality, when you have jobs and kids, you worry about family.
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