Say you're married, under common circumstances.
What if the person next door visits sometime and it turns out that they are the perfect ideal (unrealistic, I know) for what your spouse would consider the perfect partner - body, personality, background, the works.
In such a scenario, does your spouse have a responsibility to not only remain loyal, but not even allow their heart/mind to fall in love with this neighbour? (since that's a route/opening that leads to infidelity, as well as whatever ideas about how far loyalty extends)
Or is it the opposite, such that you have a duty to be so good to your spouse that its impossible for them to have any space in their heart/mind for someone else to nudge in (in the romantic sense, of course)? (since its part of love to please the other person, as well as any ideas about how far this duty extends)
Or is it some sort of balance of both?
What say you?
What if the person next door visits sometime and it turns out that they are the perfect ideal (unrealistic, I know) for what your spouse would consider the perfect partner - body, personality, background, the works.
In such a scenario, does your spouse have a responsibility to not only remain loyal, but not even allow their heart/mind to fall in love with this neighbour? (since that's a route/opening that leads to infidelity, as well as whatever ideas about how far loyalty extends)
Or is it the opposite, such that you have a duty to be so good to your spouse that its impossible for them to have any space in their heart/mind for someone else to nudge in (in the romantic sense, of course)? (since its part of love to please the other person, as well as any ideas about how far this duty extends)
Or is it some sort of balance of both?
What say you?