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- Newsgroups: alt.polyamory
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!slg
- From: slg@well.sf.ca.us (Sean L. Gilley)
- Subject: I need to talk.
- Message-ID: <C03Ar3.GGC@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:40:15 GMT
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- I need to talk.
-
- I'm not sure why; maybe I'd simply like someone who's been in my
- position to offer experiences or advice. Maybe not, though, maybe
- I just need to get this off my chest, and this seems a reasonable
- place to do it.
-
- If anyone here reads soc.couples, you might recall my article about
- a year ago about a new emotional involvement I had started outside
- my marriage. This is, I guess, sortof about that.
-
- Some background. I have never felt like I was a monogamous person.
- I've always felt that love is love, and that loved should be expressed.
- And since I became a non-virgin (which happened rather late in my life),
- and I began to express love physically to one I loved, I realised that
- when I get close to a woman, I begin to feel the desire to express myself
- physically -- not necessarily sexually, but physically.
-
- I never kept this from my wife. In fact, I told her long before we
- were married that when I fall in love with a person, I would most
- probably want to express my love physically. Her one comment was
- that she didn't want to know about it if I did.
-
- Well, last year a woman that I had been in love with for many years
- came to me and told me the feeling was mutual. Oh, there was a lot
- more to it than that, but that was the essence. Over about the last
- year, our relationship has progressed to the point where we are
- just shy of having a consumated sexual relationship. Not to say our
- relationship is only physical. We've been extremely close friends
- for about twelve years; I've been in love with her for almost
- that long. It's simply that her feelings for me changed a bit,
- moved from wanting me as a friend, to wanting me as a lover.
-
- Perhaps, this being alt.polyamory, I don't have to say this, but I
- will. I'm still just as much in love with my wife as I every was.
- In fact, our relationship has strengthened over the last year.
-
- Well, my wife and our son was at her parents house this week. That
- in and of itself was a bit unexpected -- weather had kept her there.
- Her original plan was to arrive at the house of these friends of ours
- on friday. The friends are about midway between her parents house
- and our house, and about four hours from our house. And wife of this
- family is the woman I talked about above.
-
- I had planned to go down on thursday, spend New Year's Eve with them,
- and meet my wife there on friday. I just talked to my wife. She's
- going to arrive, probably before I do, on thursday.
-
- When I found this out, I was dissappointed. I had hoped for some time
- alone with this friend of mine, and I guess I don't now feel that will
- happen. And it's not that I don't want to see my wife and son -- I do,
- but I also wanted this other time.
-
- I don't know. I have all these conflicting feelings about what I
- *should* feel. Not to mention all (or most) of our society telling
- me that these feelings -- let alone the intimacies we've shared --
- are entirely wrong.
-
- SO where am I now? What conclusions do I have form all this? None.
- I'm simply in love with both of these women, passionately in love
- with both of them. As I said, I'm not even sure of why I'm writing
- this.
-
- Still sometimes the experience is love is so overwhelming that I
- have to tell someone, talk to someone, express myself somehow. I've
- often written music or poetry, today I'm writing to the net.
-
- I guess maybe today I needed a mostly uncritical audience.
- Write if you feel like it. Critical or not, for whatever
- reason, I'd liek to hear from you
-
- Sean.
-
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- Sean L. Gilley
- sean.l.gilley@att.com slg@well.sf.ca,us 71155.306@Compuserve.com
-