We need more attractive people willing to be the face of polyamory, to help with polyamory's PR problem. and are two great examples - we need more of them. Can we make a hot poly people dating app?
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Polyamory isn’t for me tbh. I’m generally not a jealous type, but I draw the line at another man being intimate with my wife.
I find it difficult to understand how people in such relationships manage jealousy, insecurities etc. Must take a very mentally strong person.
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i've been poly for a long time, and it is a learning process. with one partner, I started off feeling *intense*, almost sickening jealousy when he was with other women, but over the course of 4-6 months it weakened until it completely went away.
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Sort of neither? I've had other relationships that felt like I did a bit of the above, but with the one I'm describing, it was mostly like... my hindbrain slowly realized that actually him having sex with other people *didn't* mean he was gonna leave me.
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I'm 28, I knew I was poly from the second I learned about it, which was... I was 19? So almost a decade! Yeah, still young but I do have meaningful experience in it.
I say my body because it felt like a really physical reaction. When I'd hear him with a girl in the-
other room, I'd feel nauseated and panicky, like my heart would beat fast and there was like a buzzing in my face. There was lots of mental things too but it was definitely like my body was registering it needed to go into fight or flight mode.
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It's really hard to tell. I think that reaction makes more "sense" in a world where I'm at pregnancy risk and need a man's support. I also was raised in a world where 100% of media I saw actively encouraged sexual jealousy, so who knows.