So what happens next? I am asking myself that question more and more frequently these…
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I practice a type of poly that I tend to call tribal. As long as…
One of the most difficult parts of opening myself to non-monogamy and, really, to polyamory,…
The core values of most nonmonogamous relationships are Honesty and Communication. Both are equally important…
Complicated: past participle, past tense of com·pli·cate (Verb) 1. Make (something) more difficult or confusing by…
The question is: Do I sit her down and have a little chat about the situation? Something like, “You know that Julian is my boyfriend and Hanne is daddy’s girlfriend. I want to tell you that this is unusual – most people who are married don’t also have a boyfriend or girlfriend. They only have their husband or wife. Most of your friends and their families would think it was strange. You might want to be cautious when mentioning it to them.”
Jealousy is very common in both monogamous and non-monogamous relationships. However, in monogamous relationships it’s much easier to engineer the way you and your partner interact with others to minimize activities that trigger jealousy. In poly relationships, you’re nearly guaranteed to regularly encounter jealousy in either yourself or your partners.
Only fairly recently has polyamory developed an organized culture, and the language around it is still forming. Because of that, there is not complete agreement on how the words arising to fill the needs of the polyamorous are used.
Blue talks about a new relationship being added to the mix, and how in polyamory sometimes it’s difficult to detect where relationship definitions lie.