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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!penet!anon
- From: an3096@anon.penet.fi (lazlo)
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- X-Anonymously-To: alt.polyamory
- Organization: Anonymous contact service
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:36:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.155516.12097@penet.fi>
- Sender: anon@penet.fi (Anonymous contact service)
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- >lazlo sez
- >>Muffy sez
-
- >In article <1992Dec18.025935.29601@penet.fi> an3096@anon.penet.fi (lazlo) writes:
- > My dilemma is that even though I occasionally see two other women, I
- > am in a monogamous relationship with my SO. With one exception, I
- > have been in a sexually monogamous r'ship with her for the past 9
- > months. I have discussed the idea of polyamory with her and she has
- > told me that while she doesn't mind if I see other women, she isn't
- > interested in meeting other men.
-
- >>What exactly do you mean by "seeing" other women? Do you mean that you
- >>"see" women who are friends, or you are "dating" women, or what?
-
- By "seeing" I mean dating. I have become very interested in one of
- these women. That means I would like to be more than friends with her.
- I have only recently met the other, so I'm not sure how it will work.
-
- > When I pressed further, she said she might become jealous if I had sex
- > with another woman.
-
- >>Did she say that she therefore did not want you to do that?
-
- No, she did not say she didn't want me to have sex with other women.
- But she did say that she can be very jealous and I don't want to hurt
- her. I suppose that my problem is that I am too worried about losing
- her.
-
- > The point to which I am converging is that as I become closer to my
- > SO, I find that I am becoming more and more monogamous. The idea of
- > monogamy is not itself a bad thing, but I would like to have the
- > freedom to explore other people.
-
- >>What does "explore" mean to you?
-
- I would like to be able to be close to other women. If this goes as
- far as having sex, then I would like to know that I won't be hurting
- my SO if I do so.
-
- >>There are (at least) sexual monogamy (no sex with anyone else) and
- >>emotional monogamy (no "too close" (however that is defined)
- >>relationships with anyone else).
-
- >>Now, it sounds like your SO is okay about the emotional involvement with
- >>others, just (perhaps) not sexual. Is the problem that you also want to
- >>have sex with people other than your SO?
-
- Bingo. My SO has not said she wants me to maintain an emotional
- distance from all others. She hasn't even told me she doesn't want me
- to be sexually monogamous. She just told me she doesn't know how she
- would handle it if I had sex with another woman. Because of this, I
- have kept myself sexually monogamous while I try to decide if
- satisfying my lust and love for another woman is worth possibly losing
- my SO.
-
- >>Muffy
-
- >>--
-
- >>Muffy Barkocy | ~Can you tell me how much bleeding/it
- >>muffy@mica.berkeley.edu | takes to fill a word with meaning and/
- >>"amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm | how much how much death it takes/to give
- >>not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| a slogan breath?~ - Bruce Cockburn
-
-
- Thanks Muffy.
-
- laz
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