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Polyamory is at best a rounding error in all relationships of any sort. The vast majority of people are monogamous, serially or otherwise. I've seen quite a few
by sidlls 3y ago
Polyamory is at best a rounding error in all relationships of any sort. The vast majority of people are monogamous, serially or otherwise. I've seen quite a few poly relationships: when they weren't shallow excuses for openly having multiple concurrent sex partners (which I found amusing: just call yourselves single/casually dating--that's what that is, not a poly-relationship, and there's nothing wrong with it), they were tension-filled drama-fests because invariably one pairing in the group formed a stronger bond than the others.
- flangola7 3y agoOk? I don't see what being a "rounding error" (assuming that it is even accurate, which I don't believe it is) or your tangent has to do with my point. If we're going for personal experiences, I've known and been in multiple polycules and I can't say there's been any more drama than in mono land. Having multiple concurrent sex partners doesn't mean they're not relationships; I sleep with a lot of people ranging from my partner who I've lived with for 7 years to someone who is a hiking friend I met last spring, but they're still relationships. With full respect, your comment sounds like someone who has only external observation with the poly community/experience - i.e. the IT department phenomenon, you only get noticed the few times something is going wrong and are invisible when the ship is sailing smoothly the rest of the time. But again this is all beside the point, being part of a "rounding error" is not comforting at all to me or providing equal human rights.