Recent content by MelloHippie

Thank you guys for your help and support. It’s appreciated.

I don’t feel like I need to be wanting sex from our partner. And I do have a healthy and consistent sexual relationship with my husband that is fulfilling to me. I just don’t have the initial desire as often as others and I do not see sex as a need as others often do. I do communicate open and...

I have been expressing my discomfort in ways but I haven’t completely said to him “I can’t do poly” because this was all completely new to me and I was doing the best I could to sort things out while it’s been happening. But we went from 0-100 really fast and I feel like I’m having to do years...

We are working on the communication part. My husband and I communicate well and it seems he and our partner are able to communicate ok about things. It’s hard for her to open up and let her true feelings out. She’s always been a people pleaser and often goes along with what other people want. We...

We’ve been together 7rs total. We went into our relationship saying “we don’t want monogamy” but like I said there was never any further/deeper discussion about what that looked like for either of us and what we wanted out of it. I have not really any experience with these kinds of relationship...

We can’t afford an established poly counselor. We plan to reach out to our local college counseling practicum and see if anyone in the clinic has open marriage/poly experience. I’ve gotten personal counseling through them and it has helped. I plan to try and do that again. Leaving isn’t...

Ok I don’t want to put the whole back story here I believe it is on my first post “can I be the platonic partner?” If you want to read more of the back story. I’ll try to sum up the important stuff. I’m married and we started dating a close mutual friend back in july. Husband and I hadn’t...

To preface: I’m away on a trip. Have had to drive 16 or so hours the last 2 days. Haven’t been sleeping well. It’s catching up to my mental health. Husband has our partner over while I’m gone. It’s just feels a bit heavy for me. I feel like my place is being filled while I’m gone. I’m happy he...

This helped and made me feel better about the situation. Thank you.

Thank you this helps a lot.

I don’t really feel romantically towards the new partner at this moment. But I do feel a deep connection with them and consider them a part of my family.

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond. I am new to the world of poly. My husband and I have been together for 7 years and we always knew we didn’t want to be monogamous. Not many opportunities arose to explore outside relationships though other than some tinder messages here in there...