Hi Everyone :)

Kaycee

New member
I'm newly divorced (spouse cheated) and am happy to have found poly. I'm mono in the relationship. I've been with Him for 9 months. His Primary is one of my favorite people, His secondary is a good person and I think I'm getting a good intro to non-monogamy.
There have been bumps in the road and we have made it so far. I've read a ton of literature and 5 books to be the best partner I can be. I am happy to say I haven't caused any problems with my metas.
I look forward to learning as much as I can here!
 
Greetings Kaycee,
Welcome to our forum. Please feel free to lurk, browse, etc.

It sounds like you are a tertiary partner? unless He can have more than one secondary and/or primary. In any case it's really good that you've done a lot of studying on how to make poly work. I'm curious, what are the five books you read? Were they helpful? Which one helped the most?

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

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Hi, thank you for the welcome. I am a tertiary partner :)
I read More than Two, Power Circuits, The ethical slut, Opening up and The jealousy workbook.
More than two was most helpful in understanding my metas feelings and respecting their boundaries. Power Circuits was most helpful in understanding that while I have less time, I'm not less important and my place is special and unique.
I enjoyed all of them, those two I enjoyed most.
I love that we can all be in the same room together and we don't have issues with each other. We kind of recently had cause to come together and comfort and support Him at a difficult time and it felt really good doing that!
 
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Hi, Kaycee, and welcome!

It's good to see that you're having such a good experience with your first venture into polyamory! There are plenty of experienced poly people who continue to have envy and/or jealousy issues re: their metamours.

Not wanting to be a downer, but if a crash ever does come, it's best to be prepared, so you might like to search NRE.

You've obviously got your head screwed on right, so I'm really writing the following for the sake of anybody else curious about poly who might look in here:

It's good to see that you can differentiate between cheating and having other partners. That you can divorce a cheat because of his cheating, and feel cherished by a man who shares his love with others but is honest and open about it. There is no room for cheating in polyamory! (And, yes, unfortunately there are people who call themselves poly, who are really cheats, giving poly a bad name.)

[In part for use in explaining poly to friends and family who don't see the difference,] I like to recommend my friend's poem. (Click on its title in the 4th line of my signature and scroll down to nearly the end of that page.)

Might I suggest that you invent pseudonyms for your partner and metamours? If you call him "Him", it will sound funny when you write "Him called me today and [...]" :D;) You might find names for the metamours that indicate which is primary, which is secondary, so readers don't have to keep looking up previous posts in order to understand the situation better.

Have fun on here. Don't just concentrate on the threads that you start. Your input can help others more confused than yourself. :)
 
Hey Kaycee,

Thanks for your response, I was familiar with all of those book titles except for Power Circuits. I haven't read the Jealousy Workbook yet, but hope to do so sometime in the not-too-distant future. I'm an awfully slow reader.

Hope your stay on Polyamory.com is a pleasant one.

Sincerely,
Kevin T.
 
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