Browsing: non-monogamous

I love Halloween, I love the somewhat naughty other worldly feel the holiday gives us, the…

While we call it ‘The Lifestyle,’ my guess is that for most, like for me,…

I think it was on that fateful Sunday when I came out to my Dad…

I’ll be honest; this blogging thing scares me a bit. Don’t get me wrong…I’m happy…

Last week, in the style of the wonderful Cunning Minx, I wrote myself a User…

This week, for the first time since I’ve been out as (almost-)polyamorous, I got an…

I have mentioned some of my vanilla friends in the past. Way back in the beginning we even had MGS with some of them. That event is what cracked the doorway to non-monogamy for Anne and I. That same couple has met some of our non-monogamous friends. Well the non-monogamous friends they met are the ones who typically throw the parties we attend. Anne and I have talked to these vanilla friends before about the whole swinging thing. They had tentatively expressed interest.

Ethical Slut, in her October 7, 2011 blog raised the question of how much of our “lifestyle” we should share with our children.

It occurred to me today – well, many times, but I only dwelled enough on the subject to write about it today – that the wedding ring, which once was the universal sign for “don’t even try to flirt with me” has lost that aspect of its meaning in my life. How many people do we know who are happily married and also romantically available? I am on that list.

I have seen a few people in my years of being Poly who say or infer that they have a constant need to be told they aren’t being replaced. This tends to be a recurring problem with some newbies or people interested in exploring what the non-monogamous life is all about.