aiden choles

Sam and I moseyed along to a recording of the Gareth Cliff Show earlier this week.

You might have seen me on the box when I asked a question to his panel about the dark-side of relationships. My question didn't get answered. Gareth rather took the opportunity to turn a deep question into a joke ... and threw it to Mara Louw as "the darkest one of us here".

Anyway, I guess the question might have been a little too intense for talk show like that. Nonetheless, I still believe it to be a key issue in modern relationships, and especially when we look at the issue of infidelity.

And so, my question again: is there not a dark-side to everyone one of us that threatens to self-destruct our monogamous relationships? As man, is there not a desire to spread our seed with as many mates as possible? And then, if our relationships were able to confront and own up to the dark-side in each of us, would our relationships not be more resilient and honest?

I wonder to what extent our marriages and commitment-relationships are hiding our dark-sides, thus becoming a ticking time bomb?

Dunno.