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- From: J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: A philosophical question...
- Message-ID: <C17JrB.86y@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:18:47 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.121759.16749@schbbs.mot.com> <1993Jan19.224648.28279@lclark.edu> <1993Jan19.235647.4459@news.columbia.edu>
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- jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman) writes:
- >tonyd@lclark.edu (Anthony Davis) writes:
- >>TXK025@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Eddie Chandler) writes:
- >>>In article 18007, cvadrgih wrote :
- >>>>Which is worse?
- >>>> For a guy to dump his boyfriend for a girl, or
- >>>> For a guy to dump his boyfriend for another guy.
- >>>If the guy doing the dumping was gay then obviously the
- >>>first one would be worse, although it would still be
- >>>an ego-smasher if the person was bi!
- >>the fact that one has a choice is telling...
- >>it must be difficult, having to choose who you dump your boyfriend for
- >>to hurt his feelings less...
- >
- >Here we see the *true* advantage to polyamory: When you dump your SO, both
- >you and sie know that it's because there was something wrong/uncomfortable
- >about the relationship between the two of you alone, not that 'there was
- >someone else'...
-
- I would have thought the real advantage was that you have someone else to
- support you when you're involved in a relationship breakup?
-
- (And I would have thought a disadvantage would be that someone might dump
- you *because* you were polyamourous and they weren't).
-
-
- /jon (disclaimer: I know nothing about polyamoury really)
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