Recent content by Araneidae

That's a lot of responses! I'll try to get to these as succinctly as possible. @Kevin: I've suggested that counseling might be a good option for us, because communication across the board has been pretty bad. I'm a scientist, and I like to lean towards if a certain method is clearly failing...

Thanks so much for your helpful words, Kevin. Sorry for the late reply. I've been mulling things over, and we've sort of been in a period of uncertainty right now. I really don't know how to repair things at this point. D and S have talked, and resolved that they have problems in their...

Gala Girl, that is all really practical advice. In particular, you've repeated something I already knew-- I need to take ownership of my own choices and needs. I've been trying to do a better job of expressing throughout this what exactly my needs are. Yes, a lot of this comes down to my...

Thanks so much for replying. -We've talked a lot about my potentially having kids. He has confirmed that yes, he would absolutely want to have children with me if that's what I want. And S has also said this is ok, but it was a while ago that it was discussed. But it's 3 years minimum down the...

I'm here to vent because I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. I've touched on these issues in another forum, but this is another dimension to my situation. I was never really poly... I started dating an older man, D, last year, who openly told me that he was married and had just started...

Things have jumped ahead... Thank you all so much for your feedback. I like hearing about successful stories of poly families merging. I'm back on here because I'm really struggling with something right now. I had mentioned before that the idea of more kids for D & S was a possibility, but I...

I've searched extensively online for people with experience in this department, but most articles/blogs I've tracked down are about raising kids in a poly family, less about the decisions involved in having kids in a poly family. A little background about my situation-- Last year, I went from...