One of my distant relatives met her college sweetheart and married him. At the wedding the groom’s father fell for and later married the bride’s mother as both had deceased partners. Several generations later that branch of the family tree is a knot.
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More like a ladder.
Mine.
I'm polyamorous and currently live with three of my boyfriends. I'm also a partner to a married couple that lives halfway across the country.
Neither group likes the other.
I'm also casually involved with two people I met online (but never in person) and an old high school / college fling that passes through town every few months on the way to visit his family.
Things are especially complicated because I'm 19 months into hormone therapy as an enby, which some of my partners are ecstatic about for me while one disapproves because he's not "into" trans people.
Note: this is also just a surface detail. There's personal stuff about more than one of my partners that amplifies the complicatedness, but those aren't my stories to tell.
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Man this sounds like quite the experience.
Yep, can't imagine it any other way, though. Furries and drama go together like.. well, furries and other furries. XD
I'm poly but have a friend who it's VERY poly. Her squigle is huge. I have no idea how they manage.
I guess they just juggle thru it.
Living the life!
As best as we can figure it, anyway! =3
My friend's husband cheated on her right before she got pregnant, so now he has 2 kids about a month apart. At one point, he was living in another state, they were still legally married, and she was seriously dating someone that she was considering marrying while raising both kids because neither of the bio parents were capable. Probably that?
What is that?
Star Trek Enterprise episode where the polyamorous Dr. Phlox introduces his wife Feezal to Trip, she makes him uncomfortable by aggressively flirting with him in front of her husband.
I had forgotten about this episode!
In my personal experience, true poly couples often act the way that Phlox/Feezal do around a potential new partner. In all cases I've seen they respect the boundaries that the new partner sets, like here Trip feels weird and expresses that later in the episode, so they back off.
Poly relationships would have been a really cool dynamic to explore on Enterprise though, so it's somewhat of a missed opportunity. Oh well.