Well, there IS the Republic of Dave in the Capitol Wasteland, so the idea has been touched upon. (I don't know about anyone else's games, but in almost all of mine things didn't go well for Dave).

I know she's dead I was talking about how he used the term "wife" to describe her. The previous poster had said that there was no marriage in the wasteland, when marriage is a broad term, and that people at least use those terms that implies some sort of serious commitment. After all they say wife/husband instead of long term girlfriend/boyfriend.

yeah, but dave was more of a brainwashing dictator type, I was trying to think of an example of polygamy or polyamory in the game that was healthy, and functional.

Nice crocodile dundee/ australian outback reference.

I've flirted with my companions while in the same settlement though. Why do they dislike me flirting with magnolia, but they seem perfectly fine with me flirting with another character right by them?

Maybe they will. The comics have gone out of their way to not pick a side. Another possibility is Betty and Veronica get together and leave Archie chained to the bedpost. That is probably the best way to deal with that two-timing idiot. Or would that be three-timing or four-timing?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001715/: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sixual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000634/: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sixual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0119988/: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.

From Stanley Kubrik's classic film Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Which if you haven't seen you need to watch NOW!

Funny, my professor in English Comp talked a little bit about this movie a few days ago. Is it on Netflix or Hulu?

Thanks for the great info. Good to have that clarified makes it more rewarding since am playing myself and believe in just being with one woman to keep those bonds strong.

Indeed. So far i have just stuck to Piper. Must be the whole writer reporter thing she's got going.

Piper gives me a Nelly Bly kind of vibe, or "writer reporter thing"

Ah the legendary Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. Now that i think of it their eyes do have a similar magical sparkle bright with truth.

It should be on Netflix. It may even be on youtube.

Yay verily thou art.

Have you gotten you hands on the serum of immortality? She died like a really long time ago? or are you talking about a photograph of her eyes? Or, do you mean that metaphorically, in the sense of their personalities?

Make fun of her name all you want, after her career in Journalism the woman married a rich old millionaire, and ran one of his companies, she was [censored] loaded bro.

Marriage in what sense though. You could get married in Fallout 2, and you can witness a wedding in Fallout 4.

I'm going as far as to say married in any sense of it. Not just government, or religious sanctioned (even the church that is all the religions lol) , but when two people say hey you wanna be my wife, and she says yes, and it's said you'll "always be there for them"

Til death do us part. In most of the fictions or even real life, people don't consider a dead spouse to be ex-wife or ex-husband, they usually only talk about them as husband and wife. They were married, but once the other person is dead, they're single again, but they don't consider their dead spouse as ex. I wouldn't say that MacGreedy is a polygamist if his wife is dead and gone. Even your character refers to their dead spouse as simply husband/wife, and I imagine the protagonist got married in the traditional sense. Were there any polygamy relationship in the series where everyone consent instead of slaves or some kind of monetary reasons behind such as marriage?

I Romance MacGreedy, therefore he is now my husband. I have also romanced all my other companions, so I was saying basically they are all my spouses, therefore polygamy, polyamory.

If you consider it to be so. I don't even think they are ok with it when they show you that they are jealous and give a hate disapproval for flirting and sleeping with Magnolia. I have no problem with how anyone wants to roleplay their game, but I personally don't think it's fair if not everyone agree with it. I personally just put a ring on Danse and says that we're married.

Well that's where my point is, for whatever reason they give a hate disapproval with magnolia, but I've done the flirt option when having the "talks" with companions and another companion be right there, and they don't object, or give a hate disapproval. So why do they do that with magnolia, but not the other companions?

Also I didn't mean to imply that they are explicitly polygamist, just that from a point of view it would be seen as acceptable, since they don't object like with magnolia, but people can role play it however they want.

I like Danse when doing a brotherhood play through, he's my little rule stickler moody bottom lol even have my own head dialogue and everything lol

I also just wanted to go on the recored that I'm neither polyamorous or polygamist IRL, I just like having all the companion perks in game, and this is how I rationalize it from an in game story prospective

This doesn't need to be mentioned. What happens in the game, stays in the game. At least, I hope that players that take the Cannibal perk aren't secretly cannibals in real life or most of us aren't psychopaths that kills anyone that looks funny.