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I'm not arguing that everybody should go poly, or that it's best for everybody. I'm arguing: 1-Monog ppl have lots of severe misconceptions about polyamory 2-Monogamy is in the water supply; a lot of people don't 'actually' have a poly option or know they'd be happier poly

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Another great example of a misconception

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Is it though? I think it’s dead on.

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Oh no it's definitely a misconception, it's extremely far off from how polyamory actually works. It sounds like it was written by someone who's never been in a poly community before or been close friends with a mature poly person

7:48 AM · Feb 13, 2021

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Nah just older people who having been watching poly relationships implode for 30 years. Relationships always have a power imbalance, and bringing in another party is always a recipe for diasaster.

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Why can't it be corrective?

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It assumes that you’re ‘doing’ something negative to your partner, whoever wrote it obviously don’t understand compersion. If it’s not something both people in the relationship want, that’s a separate problem

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Are we talking about arrangements that involve more than two partners who are all committed to a long-term relationship? Or couples where one or both partners is free to screw around on the side? I thought it was the first one, but this meme seems to be describing the 2nd.