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- From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
- Newsgroups: alt.polyamory
- Subject: Re: (lazlo) changing relationships
- Message-ID: <MUFFY.92Dec24110217@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 16:02:17 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.155516.12097@penet.fi>
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- In-reply-to: an3096@anon.penet.fi's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:36:51 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec22.155516.12097@penet.fi> an3096@anon.penet.fi (lazlo) writes:
- >>Muffy sez
- >>>In article <1992Dec18.025935.29601@penet.fi> an3096@anon.penet.fi (lazlo) writes:
- >>> 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.
-
- What is "too worried"? Do you mean that you are going against what you
- really want, in order to maintain the relationship? If you are losing
- your "self" in the relationship, then you may well be "too worried."
- However, good relationships *are* worth a lot of effort.
-
- >>>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.
-
- It sounds like your SO is at least trying not to restrict you. As
- another poster has pointed out, it may be that she cannot handle the
- prospect of you with someone else at all. Or, it may be that she is
- willing to negotiate this with you.
-
- It doesn't sound like you had any initial negotiation as to whether or
- not this was a monogamous relationship; rather, it has just been
- assumed. Nonetheless, the lack of negotiation is still a form of
- agreement. So, it seems to me that you really need to talk to your SO
- about this, and about maybe negotiating some new rules for the
- relationship. If you keep working it all out in your head, you might
- even decide you have to leave her, even though you don't want to, when
- in fact she might be ready to give polyamory a try, if it's what you
- really want. Keep in mind that it is her relationship, too, and that
- she also has a stake in making it work out.
-
- 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
-