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This is really fantastic, Mono... really. For many of us who cannot relate well to a monogamous perspective, it helps to have it spelled out in a straightforward but caring way. I particularly like how you focus on needs, rather than assumptions. Many of us who are poly have had our hearts...

I'll give this a shot, since I've been in both a "merged" and "unmerged" poly situation. Currently I think I'm sort of straddling the two worlds, as I live with and am committed to my children but do not live with any of my partners. There are different stages, as I see if, of our relationship...

I am in two very satisfying and supportive long-term LDRs, and have been in many LDRs over the years, so I have a bit of experience. ;) I find that poly supports long distance love relationships better than monogamy because there is generally an understanding that there is still room for local...

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I'd say "not necessarily," because jealousy can stem from so many differing causes. In a well-established, long-term primary relationship there can be more trust and better communication, and therefore less need for jealousy, for example. Newer relationships that are still experiencing NRE can...

Actually I do get this, Derby. When my kids were younger we lived in a rural area and I had no access to babysitters pretty much their entire childhoods. When my husband would go away to visit his girlfriend overseas for months, and I was pretty much a full-time nanny and dog-sitter with...

My husband and I were monogamous for 15 years before deciding to actively live as poly. We are now separated, but we were poly together for three years (and are still friends). I was with one partner for just over three years, and my four current relationships range from 14 months to 2 months...

I know what you're going through, and I want to offer you hope! :) I'm 43 and have been polyamorous for quite a few years. When my husband and I started out, he dated a much younger woman, and I went through what you are experiencing. It was really difficult and I had to face a LOT of demons...

Make a shopping date? :D

With multiple partners, scheduling sometimes IS like a business meeting. Therefore, you should remember to dress appropriately for dates in a pinstripe jacket and pencil skirt, glasses, stockings with garters, and classy high-heeled shoes. That'll show 'em. ;)

For the record, Derby, I can't imagine ANYONE who has met you thinking you're a boring old wife! :)

"Anyone else have this happen to them? I just find it strange." Yeah, I have. A cynical person would say they want sex. :P The reflective person in me says you're embodying a fantasy they wish they could participate in but don't have the courage or desire to enact. I used to spend a lot of...

Aha, yep -- about 8 posts if you search by the tag "children". :) Thanks, redpepper! I think your son very lucky to have both poly and mono "parents", btw... He will certainly be well-rounded! ;)

Fantastic! And thank you. :)

A few threads on here got me thinking about the two things that are the biggest passions in my own life: being polyamoroous and being a parent of two teenage girls. Many things I've heard and read from poly people deal with fears about poly being harmful to their kids, or worries about how it...

I like what Franklin has to say, in a general sense. Having been through more than a few radical game-changers in my own life (death, separation, partner falling in love with someone else to the exclusion of myself, illness), I think I can speak from a position of some experience when I say...

Nice! I agree that love can be pure when shared with more than one person at a time (that's why I'm poly, after all)! ;)

Sex for me is a language, and an energy, and each person I am sexual with has their own sexual "fingerprint". It is this unique expression that is meaningful for me, not any particular act or expression. The way one partner performs oral is vastly different in energy, intent and skill than...

Latest press release from CPAA Please note the following press release from the Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association pertaining to their application to intervene in the B.C. government's challenge of Canada's anti-polygamy law...