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I was browsing and found this thread. I was recently feeling like my girlfriend's husband was so generous. So, I said, I feel like I want to buy him a card that says, "Thanks for sharing your wife!"

How do you handle venting about some issue in your other relationship(s) to your significant other? How do you handle responding when your significant other vents? We bumped up against this recently. We were (and are) best friends first, so talking about our relationships and how we may be...

P.S. I really like these quotes from your signature as well! And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin I'd rather have a broken heart / Than have a heart of stone. - from "Boundless Love (A Polyamory Song)" by Jimmy...

Thanks so much! I appreciate all the replies here!

Hi everyone. I chose this username because it means "consisting of or combining two or more separable aspects or qualities." I am a wife and mother. I met my spouse at age 14, got together at age 16 and we have been together ever since. We have two daughters. I met my best friend 4 1/2 years...

I think you tell them both together. However, I'm of the opinion that no matter what he thinks or she thinks, you need to be the one to make this decision. So, no matter how this conversation goes, I suggest you take a day or two and journal, run, listen to music, drive, paint, sit in nature...

Great thread! I'm new to this forum and we're navigating this too. We're deciding how worried we are or are not going to be about "being seen together" in public in our community. My best friend/girlfriend is also a little worried about us living in the south and how that will affect things...

Thank you!

Wow, I'm so grateful for your response! You took apart her argument, piece by piece. You helped me deconstruct it. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for your response! I am really appreciating reading everything that you have to say here. I definitely needed perspective. I'm going to respond within your text just to show the points I'm responding to more clearly. I definitely need to be better at not assuming everyone's...

Thank you, that's really lovely. I'll try my best to adjust my focus. I'm perhaps an anxious person in general, so that contributes. Long hours alone with my insomnia sometimes cause me to question everything. Those moments when I am together with her leave me more at ease though. It feels more...

Thank you. You're right, fear isn't always rational. This is all so new that there are a lot of fears cropping up though, the most salient of which for her and I are that our kids will somehow be negatively affected. Her husband is a little worried about her splitting her time and putting...

I am in a very new situation and I just want some outside perspectives. I guess that we're doing this the right way and things might be okay. I made an anonymous post on a mainstream forum and things did not go well. I am told I should see the other side of things in a place like this. I am so...