I don’t usually rant at monogamous people.\u00a0 Polyamorous people in general provide more than enough rant fodder and idiocy to be going on with.\u00a0 But a couple of incidents have bubbled across my brain in the last few months that I just don’t wanna keep quiet.<\/p>\n
My monogamous bretheren… If you wind up on a date with someone and they say up front<\/em>, “I’m polyamorous.” do yourself a favor:<\/p>\n Believe it if the person has a boy or girlfriend, wife, husband, or SO. But believe it just as strongly if that person isn’t presently dating anyone else.\u00a0 ‘Cause I’ll bet you ten dollars to a doughnut that person will<\/strong> want to be seeing other people than you sometime down the road.<\/p>\n Getting pregnant isn’t going to change this (no, really.\u00a0 Babies don’t make partners act the way you wish they would.\u00a0 Often the insanity of early infancy means quite the opposite).<\/p>\n Falling in love isn’t going to change it. No, not even if s\/he falls in love with you.\u00a0 Being madly in love won’t change whether or not you’re poly.\u00a0 Poly people can be madly in love with more than one person.\u00a0 It’s… well, kinda the point when you think about it.<\/p>\n Polyamory isn’t playing the field until you find the right person.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you’re looking for a monogamous relationship only, do yourself a favor and walk away if someone says s\/he’s poly.<\/p>\n That said, if you’re cool with dating a poly person (and the ramifications that they’re not only<\/em> going to be seeing you<\/em>) then go for it.\u00a0 Poly\/mono pairings can work, but they usually do when both parties are realistic.\u00a0\u00a0 I know people who are utterly realstic about this and they have fulfilling, happy relationships.<\/p>\n That straight?\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n Now, I’d like all my little poly chillun to gather ’round, ’cause Mama Java’s got something to say to all of you:<\/em><\/p>\n Don’t imply it’s negotiable1<\/sup> just because the mono person you’re dating is smoking hot. That obnoxious.\u00a0 Even if you’ve been dating a monogamous person for a long time, and haven’t really been looking elsewhere, it’d be a good idea to just bring up the subject from time to time.\u00a0 (Hey, George?\u00a0 I know we’ve been dating three years.\u00a0\u00a0 Remember when we first started dating, I told you I was poly?\u00a0 Still hasn’t changed, even though I’ve not met someone lately).\u00a0 Don’t let things slide.\u00a0 Unspoken assumptions in this area will bite<\/em> you.<\/p>\n Oh… and just for the record, announcing you’re poly after you’ve been dating someone awhile with no discussion is really<\/em> over the edge.\u00a0 Don’t do that, either.\u00a0\u00a0 Communication is one thing.\u00a0 Dropping bombs isn’t really communication.\u00a0 It’s just mean.<\/p>\n 1<\/sup>Unless it really <\/em>is. It’s sure as hell not for me, and more often than not, it’s not for most poly people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t usually rant at monogamous people.\u00a0 Polyamorous people in general provide more than enough rant fodder and idiocy to be going on with.\u00a0 But a couple of incidents have bubbled across my brain in the last few months that I just don’t wanna keep quiet. My monogamous bretheren… If you wind up on a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Believe what you’ve been told<\/h2>\n
You be clear right away that you’re poly!<\/h2>\n
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