{"id":740,"date":"2012-06-09T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2012-06-09T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:01:24","slug":"more-anti-poly-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/09\/more-anti-poly-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"More Anti-Poly Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open Relationships: Partners, Threesome, Swinging, Polyamory and\/or Including Any Additional Partner In Your Sexual Marital Relationship<\/p>\n<p><em>No, the answer is NO \u2013 DO NOT, I repeat in capital letters: DO NOT have any additional partner\/person in your marriage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Threesomes, swinging, polyamory, any inclusion of any one in addition to your spouse as a sexual partner in your marriage\u2013the answer is no, do not do it! Through my 18 years of providing couples counseling, with consistency couples who report they decided to have some form of open relationship rather than a monogamous relationship have ended up in an awful mental place and have destroyed their marriage. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drkarenruskin.com\/2238\/open-relationships-expert-advice\/\">http:\/\/www.drkarenruskin.com\/2238\/open-relationships-expert-advice\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gosh, in my nearly 22 years of marriage we did have some trouble, honest no kidding. \u00a0We even considered breaking up.<\/p>\n<p>Stopping the poly didn&#8217;t cure it. \u00a0GROWING THE FUCK UP AND LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE sure as shit did.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still poly, we&#8217;re happy, and we have a relationship that works and makes us happy. \u00a0Sorry if that doesn&#8217;t work for you, but hey, we&#8217;re not dating you.<\/p>\n<p>(Remember y&#8217;all &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/2007\/03\/25\/be-a-credit-to-your-kink\/\">Be a credit to your kink<\/a> if you&#8217;re gonna reply directly. \u00a0You&#8217;re the Face of Poly)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Relationships: Partners, Threesome, Swinging, Polyamory and\/or Including Any Additional Partner In Your Sexual Marital Relationship No, the answer is NO \u2013 DO NOT, I repeat in capital letters: DO NOT have any additional partner\/person in your marriage. Threesomes, swinging, polyamory, any inclusion of any one in addition to your spouse as a sexual partner&#8230;<\/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":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-the-polyamory-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}