I’m posting this for my friend, Seattlepolychick and for myself and others who could could use this information. Many of my characters are poly and I can only wish that they behaved so well as outlined here. I hope my stories show both the light and dark sides of relationships in general and poly ones as well. This is just such solid advice, whether or not one is poly. People are human. 🙂
SPECIAL NOTE: This blog post touches on one of many themes I’ll be covering in my forthcoming crowdsourced book on unconventional intimate relationships: Off the Relationship Escalator. Please subscribe to updates about this project.
Recently a poly friend observed, “There are no secondary people. Be careful how you treat everyone in relationships.”
…Fine, but how do you actually pull that off? Where’s the list of what to do?
I decided to take on this challenge, with help from SoloPoly readers and many others in the poly/open community. Here’s why:
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Thank you! I hope this is because you know I am learning and trying to grow and form how I conduct my relationships and not because you feel I’m messing this up. :).
I really appreciate this reblog. Thank you!
Oh yes, lol. I thought it would be helpful. I don’t think you’re messing up. 🙂 I am learning myself and when I cane across this I thought you’d appreciate it as well. I love reading your blog and it is so wonderful that you’re candid about the ups and downs of life and love. It can be a pretty lonely place for poly folk so I like to connect as many people and resources as I can, if that makes sense. Ha.
It does and it’s very appreciated. 😉