Yesterday I made a comment about what monogamy means at its base definition.

It comes from the Greek monógamos, meaning “marrying only once,” from mono-, “single” or “one,” and -gamy, meaning “marriage.” The same root is used in the words bigamous (being married to two people at the same time) and polygamous (being married to more than one person at a time).

Since the invention of the word it became used to describe animals who only take one mate and recently become used to describe amounts of sexual partners.

It doesn’t bother me that others disagree with my personal thoughts about labels such as ENM but the uneducated comments made telling me I was incorrect about the definition of monogamy at its base does.