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- From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: A philosophical question...
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:51:33
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- In-reply-to: J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk's message of 21 Jan 93 14:18:47 GMT
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- In article <C17JrB.86y@newcastle.ac.uk> J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:
- >jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman) writes:
- >>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'...
-
- Unfortunately, being polyamorous doesn't actually make people any more
- sensible...*wry smile*. When someone is upset or hurt because someone
- has left them, they'll come up with whatever explanation they want. If
- they are in a polyamorous relationship and the person continues some
- outside relationship(s), they might well decide that they were "left for
- the other person/people." This is more patently silly in a polyamorous
- relationship, though, since you don't *have* to leave to be with the
- other person.
-
- Still, in my experience, it is very rare for anyone (monogamous or not)
- to "leave someone for someone else." However, it is very common for
- someone to form a new relationship before leaving an old one - sort of
- like if you hate your job, you'll generally still try to find a new one
- before leaving the old one. Of course, non-polyamorous people are
- sometimes *forced* to leave a relationship because they love more than
- one person and one of those people tells them they have to choose. Even
- then, though, I would not say it was accurate to say they left the one
- for the other.
-
- >I would have thought the real advantage was that you have someone else to
- >support you when you're involved in a relationship breakup?
-
- Not necessarily. I have lots of friends to support me through breakups.
- My SO and I were both involved with a person and when we broke up with
- her, we had a tendency to keep upsetting each other by each feeding in
- how upset we were. (Then, of course, each of us got upset with the
- person we'd split up with for hurting our partner, etc. Very messy.)
- Talking to friends was a lot easier.
-
- Muffy
- --
-
- Muffy Barkocy |~Never had a lot of faith in human beings/
- muffy@mica.berkeley.edu | but sometimes we manage to shine/like a
- "amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm | light on a hill beaming out to space/from
- not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| somewhere hard to find~ - Bruce Cockburn
-