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FrancescaRimini

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Hey everyone,

Good to meet you all. This is all pretty new to me. I'm in the UK but there is no UK poly forum that I can see and I just got involved in a big fight on a mainstream parenting site (cough, Mumsnet) where it was made pretty clear that poly folks are not welcome.

So here I am. I'm 42, female, mostly het, long time married with 3 kids and a secondary male partner who I've been seeing for 8 months. I'll post more in a bit.
 
Greetings FrancescaRimini,
Welcome to our forum. Please feel free to lurk, browse, etc.

You'll at least be accepted as a poly person here, obviously. Sorry to hear about the awful experience you had on the one parenting site. I hope your experience here is much better, these folks are usually pretty reasonable.

Sincerely,
Kevin T., "official greeter" :)

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Welcome aboard!
 
Thanks for the warm welcome Kevin. Its been really interesting and fun to read some of the other members stories. I'm a bit isolated in RL at the moment but I am planning to attend a local poly meet up group in a few weeks time to hopefully meet some like minded people.
 
That sounds promising; I hope you'll have an enjoyable time.
 
Greetings, I'm a UK mumsnet refugee too ;) I'm in a mono relationship right now but certainly open to poly :) my husband has no beef with poly, but I don't know if he's up for it in his *own* relationships so I'm not 'out'....
 
It really bothers me how people make such assumptions. Assuming that anyone who doesn't follow their strict ideals of "normal" relationship structure must be a terrible parent...that's the worst.

It's ok to have a mono marriage that disintigrates into fighting, cheating, alcoholism, eventual divorce, Mom bringing strange men home from bars around her kids, that is "normal" mono stuff--that's ok. Just a tough home. Builds character.

But let someone have a happy, healthy, lifestyle full of love and positive energy, that happens to involve something like oh, a gay couple, or a poly group, and we're all sick weirdos that must be having orgies hanging from the ceiling and shouldn't be trusted anywhere around kids.

Can't stand those judgmental pearl clutchers. Just can't stand 'em.
 
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