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Vox
08-06-2025
- General
- Vox
First comes marriage. Then comes a flirtatious colleague.
is a senior reporter for Vox's Future Perfect and co-host of the Future Perfect podcast. She writes primarily about the future of consciousness, tracking advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience and their staggering ethical implications. Before joining Vox, Sigal was the religion editor at the Atlantic. Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form or email Here's this week's question from a reader, condensed and edited for clarity: My husband and I have a good relationship. We're both committed to personal growth and continual learning and have developed very strong communication skills. A couple of years ago we were exposed to some friends with an open marriage and had our own conversations about ethical non-monogamy. At first, neither of us were interested. Now, my husband is interested and currently is attracted to a colleague who is also into him. She's married and has no idea that he and I talk about all of their interactions. He doesn't know what her relationship agreements are with her husband. I'm not currently interested in ethical non-monogamy. I see things in our relationship that I'd like to work on together with my husband. I want more of his attention and energy, to be frank. I don't want his attention and energy being funneled into another relationship. I don't have moral issues with ethical non-monogamy, I just don't actually see any value-add for me right now. The cost-benefit analysis leaves me saying 'not now.' My husband admitted that he's hoping I will have a change of mind. I don't want to force his hand, although I am continuing to say very clearly what I want in my relationship. How do we reach a compromise? If he cuts ties with this woman, he has resentment towards me. If he continues to pursue something with her, I feel disrespected, and while I don't want to leave him I would feel the need to do something. Dear Monogamously Married, I want to start by commending you for two things. First, for your openness to discussing and exploring all this with your husband. Second, for your insistence on clearly stating what you actually want — and don't want. I think Erich Fromm, the 20th-century German philosopher and psychologist, would back me up in saying that you'd do well to hold tight to both those qualities. For starters, radical openness is important because, according to Fromm, the basic premise of love is freedom. He writes: Love is a passionate affirmation of its 'object.' That means that love is not an 'affect' but an active striving, the aim of which is the happiness, development, and freedom of its 'object.' In other words, love is not a feeling. It's work, and the work of love is to fully support the flourishing of the person you love. That can be scary — what if the person discovers that they're actually happier with somebody else? — which is why Fromm specifies that only someone with a strong self 'which can stand alone and bear solitude' will be up for the job. He continues: This passionate affirmation is not possible if one's own self is crippled, since genuine affirmation is always rooted in strength. The person whose self is thwarted can only love in an ambivalent way; that is, with the strong part of his self he can love, with the crippled part he must hate. So far, it might sound like Fromm is saying that to be a good lover is to be a doormat: you just have to do whatever's best for the other person, even if it screws you over. But his view is very much the opposite. In fact, Fromm cautions us against both 'masochistic love' and 'sadistic love.' In the first, you give up your self and sacrifice your needs in order to become submerged in another person. In the second, you try to exert power over the other person. Both of these are rooted in 'a deep anxiety and an inability to stand alone,' writes Fromm; whether by dissolving yourself into them or by controlling them, you're trying to make it impossible for the other person to abandon you. Both approaches are 'pseudo-love.' Have a question you want me to answer in the next Your Mileage May Vary column? Feel free to email me at or fill out this anonymous form! Newsletter subscribers will get my column before anyone else does and their questions will be prioritized for future editions. Sign up here! So although Fromm doesn't want you to try to control your partner, and although he suggests that the philosophical ideal is for you to passionately affirm your partner's freedom, he's not advising you to do that if, for you, that will mean masochism. If you're not up for ethical non-monogamy — if you feel, like many people, that the idea of giving your partner free rein is too big a threat to your relationship or your own well-being — then pretending otherwise is not real love. It's just masochistic self-annihilation. I'm personally partial to Fromm's non-possessive approach to love. But I equally appreciate his point that the philosophical ideal could become a practical bloodbath if it doesn't work for the actual humans involved. I think the question, then, is this: Do you think it's possible for you to get to a place where you genuinely feel ready for and interested in ethical non-monogamy? It sounds like you're intellectually open to the idea, and given that you said you're committed to personal growth and continual learning, non-monogamy could offer you some benefits; lots of people who practice it say that part of its appeal lies in the growth it catalyzes. And if practicing non-monogamy makes you and/or your husband more fulfilled, it could enrich your relationship and deepen your appreciation for each other. But right now, you've got a problem: Your husband is pushing on your boundaries by flirting with a woman even after you've expressed that you don't want him pursuing something with her. And you already feel like he isn't giving you enough attention and energy, so the prospect of having to divvy up those resources with another woman feels threatening. Fair! Notice, though, that that isn't a worry about non-monogamy per se — it's a worry about the state of your current monogamous relationship. In a marriage, what partners typically want is to feel emotionally secure. But that comes from how consistently and lovingly we show up for and attune to one another, not from the relationship structure. A monogamous marriage may give us some feeling of security, but it's obviously no guarantee; some people cheat, some get divorced, and some stay loyally married while neglecting their partner emotionally. 'Monogamy can serve as a stand-in for actual secure attachment,' writes therapist Jessica Fern in Polysecure, a book on how to build healthy non-monogamous relationships. She urges readers to take an honest look at any relationship insecurities or dissatisfactions that are being disguised by monogamy, and work with partners to strengthen the emotional experience of the relationship. Since you feel that your husband isn't giving you enough attention and energy, be sure to talk to him about it. Explain that it doesn't feel safe for you to open up the relationship without him doing more to be fully present with you and to make you feel understood and precious. See if he starts implementing these skills more reliably. In the meantime, while you two are trying to reset your relationship, it's absolutely reasonable to ask him to cool it with the colleague he's attracted to; he doesn't have to cut ties with her entirely (and may not be able to if they work together), but he can certainly avoid feeding the flames with flirtation. Right now, the fantasy of her is a distraction from the work he needs to be doing to improve the reality of your marriage. He should understand why a healthy practice of ethical non-monogamy can't emerge from a situation where he's pushing things too far with someone else before you've agreed to change the terms of your relationship (and if he doesn't, have him read Polysecure!). It's probably a good idea for you to each do your own inner work, too. Fern, like Fromm, insists that if we want to be capable of a secure attachment with someone else, we need to cultivate that within ourselves. That means being aware of our feelings, desires, and needs, and knowing how to tend to them. Understanding your attachment style can help with this; for example, if you're anxiously attached and you very often reach out to your partner for reassurance, you can practice spending time alone. After taking some time to work on these interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, come back together to discuss how you're feeling. Do you feel more receptive to opening up the relationship? Do you think it would add more than it would subtract? If the answer is 'yes' or 'maybe,' you can create a temporary relationship structure — or 'vessel,' as Fern calls it — to help you ease into non-monogamy. One option is to adopt a staggered approach to dating, where one partner (typically the more hesitant one) starts dating new people first, and the other partner starts after a predetermined amount of time. Another option is to try a months-long experiment where both partners initially engage in certain romantic or sexual experiences that are less triggering to each other, then assess what worked and what didn't, and go from there. If the answer is 'no' — if you're not receptive to opening up your relationship — then by all means say that! Given you'll have sincerely done the work to explore whether non-monogamy works for you, your husband doesn't get to resent you. He can be sad, he can be disappointed, and he can choose to leave if the outcome is intolerable to him. But he'll have to respect you, and what's more important, you'll have to respect yourself. Bonus: What I'm reading This week's question prompted me to go back to the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow, who was influenced by Fromm. Maslow spoke of two kinds of love : Deficit-Love and Being-Love. The former is about trying to satiate your own needs, while the latter is about giving without expecting something in return. Maslow characterizes Being-Love as an almost spiritual experience, likening it to 'the perfect love of their God that some mystics have described.' In addition to Polysecure, which has become something of a poly bible in the past few years, I recommend reading What Love Is — and What It Could Be , written by the philosopher Carrie Jenkins. I appreciated Jenkins's functionalist take on romantic love: She explains that we've constructed the idea of romantic love a certain way in order to serve a certain function (structuring society into nuclear family units), but we can absolutely revise it if we want.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kim Jae-joong experiences customer service nightmare as he tries to delete hacked account
14 May - Kim Jae-joong recently revealed that he became a victim of a hack involving his Kakao Pay account and had a nightmarish time trying to resolve the issue. The singer shared this piece of information with his fans via the Fromm platform, saying that his Kakao Pay was hacked and password changed without his knowledge, which prompted him to call the related department to settle the problem. "When I contacted the customer service, they transferred me to the securities help desk. They then transferred me to the security and incident centre. I talked to them for about an hour, but I ended up not resolving the issue and had to end the call because of work," he said. Kim also said that he was told he couldn't delete the account without knowing the password. "How am I supposed to know the password if it was changed by the hacker? "Do they expect me to know the password the hacker set?" he lamented. Kim said that they then told him they would connect him to another department, only for it to be the first department that he spoke to when he called. "I was mentally crushed. I know they are working hard but the response was too inadequate," he said. Fortunately, it was reported that no additional damage occurred. Two days later, Kim announced that he was able to delete the account after a day and a half of work. (Photo Source: Kim Jae-joong IG)
Malay Mail
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Malay Mail
K-pop breakthrough as Just B's Bain comes out publicly in LA, performs Gaga's ‘Born This Way' in emotional moment (VIDEO)
LOS ANGELES, April 26 – Bain, a member of South Korean boy band Just B, came out as part of the queer community during the group's 'Just Odd' world tour stop in Los Angeles earlier this week. The group's main vocalist made the announcement during Tuesday's performance, becoming the first K-pop boy band member to come out publicly. 'I'm f—ing proud to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community ... Shout out to my queen Lady Gaga, because she showed that being different is beautiful!' he said, as cited by Seoul-based Korea Herald. The 23-year-old then waved a rainbow flag while performing Lady Gaga's anthem 'Born This Way,' as fans cheered and his fellow members embraced him on stage in a show of support. 'To many of you out there, who are part of LGBTQ+, or still figuring out, this is for you guys,' Bain said in a message directed at fans. Although Just B's agency has yet to release an official statement, fellow member Siwoo expressed his support for Bain through a message posted on the fan communication platform Fromm. 'Byunghee was amazing. Applause for his courage,' he reportedly wrote, using Bain's real name. 'I was watching backstage, and I teared up. Knowing how hard and painful this must've been, it hit me even harder. I already gave him a big hug — it's been such a happy tour.' Just B, a six-member group that debuted in 2021, released their latest EP 'Just Odd' in March before embarking on their ongoing world tour. Bain becomes just the third K-pop idol to come out as LGBTQ+ after former Wassup member Jiae and Katseye's Lara.
Korea Herald
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Just B's Bain first boy band member to come out as LGBTQ+
Bain proudly embraced his identity on stage during the band's LA concert, marking a historic moment in K-pop Bain, a member of boy band Just B, came out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community during an overseas performance. He publicly declared his identity Tuesday during Just B's stop in Los Angeles for its "Just Odd" world tour. He is now the third K-pop idol in a group to do so, following Jiae — formerly of Wassup — and Lara from Katseye. Bain is also the first member of a K-pop boy band to come out. During the performance Bain declared that he had something he wanted to share before saying, "I'm f---ing proud to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community,' adding, 'Shout out to my queen Lady Gaga, because she showed that being different is beautiful!' He then waved a rainbow flag as he performed Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way.' The crowd erupted in cheers and applause, while his fellow members hugged him one by one in a show of strong support. 'To many of you out there, who are part of LGBTQ+, or still figuring out, this is for you guys,' Bain added, speaking directly to fans who may share similar experiences. Though the group's agency has not issued an official statement, fellow member Siwoo shared a heartfelt message of support. On Thursday via the fan communication platform Fromm, Siwoo wrote, 'Byunghee (Bain) was amazing. Applause for his courage. I was watching backstage, and I teared up. Knowing how hard and painful this must've been, it hit me even harder. I already gave him a big hug — it's been such a happy tour.' Just B, a six-member boy band that debuted in 2021, released its EP "Just Odd" in March and is currently on a world tour. Bain, the group's main vocalist, gained attention for his impressive vocals during his appearance on Mnet's competition show "Build Up."
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Detroit Lions cut quarterback Jake Fromm on eve of NFL draft
With their quarterback depth chart set, the Detroit Lions released Jake Fromm on Wednesday, one day before the NFL draft. Fromm spent last season on the Lions' practice squad after joining the team late in training camp. He did not appear in a game and signed a future's deal to stay with the team after the season. Advertisement Jared Goff returns as the Lions starting quarterback this fall and the team signed journeyman Kyle Allen in free agency to compete with Hendon Hooker for the backup job. Recently signed quarterback Jake Fromm throws downfield to a wide receiver during practice at the Detroit Lions training facility in Allen Park on Wednesday, August 14, 2024. STAYING IN STATE? This mock draft has wild results for Michigan football stars, including one to Lions Lions general manager Brad Holmes said at the league's annual spring meeting that he still has "high hopes" for Hooker, a third-round pick in 2023. "But nobody's going to be given a job, either," Holmes said. "So if Hendon wants to be the No. 2 quarterback, then win the No. 2 quarterback job." The Lions began the formal portion of their offseason program Tuesday and start OTAs on May 28. Advertisement Dave Birkett is the author of the book, "Detroit Lions: An Illustrated Timeline." Order your copy here. Contact him at dbirkett@ Follow him on Bluesky, X and Instagram at @davebirkett. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Lions cut quarterback Jake Fromm on eve of NFL draft
