Alaric has a few close female friends at school. In fact, he’s got so many we were slightly teasing him tonight about his harem. Then we had to explain to him what a harem was and assure him that we were not in fact accusing him of having multiple (or even one) sex slaves.
Then I told him that of course he wasn’t like that, because he was a serial monogamist. He agreed, then asked me what that was. I pointed out that there was monogamy and then there was polygamy, and asked him if knew what either of them were.
At that point, Treanna piped up and told us she thought she knew what they were:
“Monogamy is when you’re smart, and polygamy is when you’re dumb!”
Without any offense intended to those who might be reading and practicing some form of polyamory..that’s brilliant. I’m still wiping the tears from my eyes.
The second part of that comment is probably 100% on (as a non-practicing polyamorist), but I suspect the first part isn’t quite as on the money. ;)