Recent content by whirlingdervish

I've considered this issue myself; notably lately while trying to make sense of where my Buddhist practice meets my love life. I think for me I decided the point is to move from need (usually based on insecurity and such) to enjoyment (which tends to be more egalitarian, compassionate, and...

Luckily the majority of the issue was simply a bipolar episode using jealousy to tap it's endless reserve of inner hell. Understanding, awareness, communicating, and patience from from loving, lovely, love have kept us afloat during the storm. Plus now I know I still have some insecurity...

Welcome, hope all goes superb for you m'dear.

I feel fine, just doing the emotional equivalent of vomiting up something poisonous. Thanks :)

People who seem to believe that because we HAVE cell phones, we NEED to be in some sort of constant cell phone symbiosis. If I'm doing something, I don't want to text you while I'm doing it. I like to be present for whatever activity or misadventure I'm in at the time. If you're bored, come...

Yes! Who knew I had such a horror show of insecurity and baseless resentment festering inside. I guess it's always when we get cocky about our ability to be self-secure, reasonable, compassionate, loving, and generally mature, that we pull a "you're going to LEAVE ME for this douche aren't...

I'm glad I noticed this thread. I've been meaning to check out UU for almost 10 years but never got around to it (:p). I was just talking with Maenad and some of our friends about heading to our local UU meeting this Sunday to check it out. Now I'm definately going.

I swing in and out of openess depending on my mood. When I first moved back to the town I'd grown up in I told my friends and I think my mom that I was poly. Mostly I just got odd looks and nobody really brought it up again or anything. But I haven't actually been in a poly relationship since...

I was raised in an LDS family and was really into it until I turned 15 or so. Psychedelics along with studying taoism, buddhism, western occult, gnostic christianity, sufiism, and other random "new age" type stuff got my mind into a different place where the stifling restrictions and inherent...

welcome to a new forum and a new avenue in life, hope both treat you splendidly ;)

Hey sweetie, thanks for joining, you're wonderful. Thanks to all for the warm welcomes, I can't wait to meet you all :)

Hi! I'm whirl, 29, living with my gf An. I've been self-described poly for about 10 years. An and I have been together for around 6 months. She has never been involved with someone like me before and I'm super happy that she's so open minded. I mentioned when we started hanging out that I...