Learning about my poly shape

[WolfShadow]

Hi!
I'm 32 M from Hamburg Germany.
I recently(from around 1 year) opened my relationship to poly with my long time partner.
We both always had open views about what a relationship is and how strange is to put limitations to it.
I personally tend to go against any preconceived stereotype about everything relationship and feelings related.
I like to know new people deeply and tend to build strong connections with a few, but too many times in this mono world we live it my views weren't really shared even when there were feelings.
Anyway! POLY IS HARD! I totally get it when people are scared about it, and I still need to make a lot of work on myself to be more free from all of the mono-normative concepts that have been planted in my mind until now.
This is why I am here, lots of you people already helped me a lot with your posts, even if you don't know it yet and now I think it's my time to reciprocate
So see you in the forum you amazing beings!

 

[JaneQSmythe]

Hello and Welcome!
I'm 49F from Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
My partner (50M) has always known I am poly and had their own open views about relationships and feelings.
I, also, like to get to know new people deeplly - a chance meeting, an intense hour(s) of conversation, a connection feels, to me, to be more substantial or significant than just knowing a whole LOT of people a little bit...
I spent a month in Germany when I was a youth, staying with a family in Krefeld. This was just after the Berlin Wall came down, it was very exciting as a teenager.
How interesting that you have made your way here, I am glad that reading our posts has been helpful. We are all works-in-progress I think.... learning, being, doing.

Jane("feeling-free-and-easy-tonignt")Q

 

[kdt26417]

Greetings WolfShadow,
Welcome to our forum. Please feel free to lurk, browse, etc.

It's really cool that you and your partner have (and always had) open views about what a relationship is, and what it can be. It is hard to break free of the mononormative programming we have all been subjected to. Kudos to you for making the effort. I am glad that Polyamory.com has helped you in that area so far.

Sincerely,
Kevin T., "official greeter"

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