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Ok, thank you. This helps. I fully understand what casual means and was happy with that. I guess I (wrongly) assumed that we were casual due to distance/timing rather than emotional availability

Oh I have. I guess I’m trying to avoid such ignorance in future. I’d never considered a non-monogamous relationship before. This experience has got me questioning lots of things.

Hi, at first, yes. I wasn’t capable of anything more however, I had no awareness of their non-monogamous status. Lesson learned, I will ask better questions in future. The difference for me is that my wants changed and I communicated them. Only then did they share that they were in an open...

If I’m honest, I don’t fully understand but I’m trying to both for my own sake and because I’d like to be more aware. Yes, it started casual and my needs changed as did the situation (unbeknown to me). They don’t describe themselves as poly, rather that they are in an open relationship where...

Hi All, I recently ended a casual agreement with a partner who failed to let me know they were in a open ENM relationship until after we had slept together. My issue isn’t with ENM but with being casual when their emotional ties are with someone else. Also with the idea that my understanding is...