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We broke up with U., and that felt ugh, but I tried reconnecting with U. because spouse and I thought it would be an option for friendship, because of similar interests. I tried to keep the past separate, but failed, causing new ugh. Have not turned to spouse to seek comfort about U., but about...

Absolutely. She's always been that way, but with something like this, the biggest question about my needs is, can they be satisfied by platonic friendships? --and that is something that I can't answer directly until I've accomplished actually meeting and making a closer friendship. For her part...

This has always thrown me for a loop. I'm not heavily involved in the gay scene; my only semi-close gay acquaintance was 10-15 years older than me and, after performing most nights out of the week and working as a radio DJ in the days, normally spent his free time NOT forcing himself to be...

Thanks for bringing this topic up. I experienced quite a bit of NRE--I'm very quick to fall into it, it seems--and my wife had a lot of these same worries. Like River, I know I'm pretty lucky she was able to hold out through (if not easily, successfully). Maybe some of this conversation will...

Yeah, that seems to be the hardest thing for me right now. We have had a couple of longer conversations the last couple of nights about it, just in general and avoiding talking about our attempt at poly. Just, the ways my viewpoint has changed, or what I need to do going forward to figure out...

From how I've heard a lot of people talk, making new platonic friends in school and even college is easier for a few reasons. Stuck in classes, seeing each other every day, being forced to work in groups and sit -somewhere- at lunch... Well, activity brings people together. Taking care of a...

Yeah, I'd distanced for about three months directly after the break up, started messaging her again, maybe once every other week, for about five or six months. Only started talking with her again just under a year after the break up, and realized a bit too late, that it was still too early.

I've been asking a few of those questions a lot. Resentment is something I've struggled against for a while now, for other reasons than just this. It gets difficult to separate who she is and how she treats me from his disorder, sometimes, and the additional stress of becoming temporary...

Solid advice, mate, and I've been trying. It's the oddest thing, and my wife has noticed it too, that while I thrive in a retail setting, capable of growing wonderful associate/customer relations, my ability to nurture healthy, meaningful friendships is evidently lacking. I'm a blunt, earnest...

I suffer from anxiety (predominately panic attacks; nothing consistently hampering, but temporarily debilitating when they're at their worst), my wife has schizoaffective disorder (shizophrenia with a bipolar element), and during our month-and-a-half to two-month poly-fi relationship, our...

I'm a married male, two kids. Formerly attempted a poly-fi relationship, but found out through the experience that it's not a lifestyle my wife can live. I went into it skeptical, found that it suited me perfectly, and am struggling to give it up for my wife. I've got, quite literally, zero...

I've been looking around for a support group for a few weeks now. I tried joining a couple of smaller online ones, but found they're inactive at best. I'm seeking a proper therapist, but am trying to build some support network until I do. I'm not used to discussing things like this, and I...