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My husband and I have not been at this very long, but he considers our family to be primary (I am not dating anyone else). We have an elementary-school aged child who is disabled. We also have his elderly dad living with us, who occasionally needs assistance or has health concerns. My husband...

My daughter is extremely bright, and a wheelchair user. As far as care...yes and no. For me, this age is a lot easier than baby stage! She reads and plays video games and entertains herself pretty well. But she can't dress herself and needs assistance in the restroom and help transferring from...

It hadn't really occurred to him until I brought it up. But once I did, he expressed understanding and some regret that we can't do the same kinds of things. He tried to work with me to brainstorm a solution, but we couldn't really come up with anything other than maybe hoping we make a new...

Well, I appreciate your attempt to give advice, but this is not helpful. I don't know who opens a relationship to make themselves a "higher value" companion but that isn't our story. We decided to pursue polyamory because my husband felt that he had enough love to share with more than one...

In our discussion about how women seem interested in me, my husband asked me if I'd ever considered that I might be bi. I said I had given it some thought, and I'm really not--I have zero desire to have sex with a woman. It's not just old religious hangups or whatever, just genuinely only would...

My husband and I both grew up very religious and married young, neither of us seriously dated anybody before each other. Now in mid-life he's been doing some serious therapy work, fallen away from religious practice, and started looking into other ways of living life. He did also have an affair...

Hi, my husband and I are new to poly, about 6 months, after many years of monogamous marriage. I am not dating anybody else, my life feels pretty full, and my husband has one partner besides me. I find myself jealous not of my husband spending time with someone else but of the types of things...