But I do honestly believe that with a bit of reason you can solve EVERYTHING.
Not strongly incompatible value systems.
I often feel poly folks are basically epicifiying what I think is "I just wanna fuck"
I think poly is defined as multiple relationships, not just many fuckbuddies.
But I do honestly believe that with a bit of reason you can solve EVERYTHING.
Not strongly incompatible value systems.
Yeah, that takes a shit ton of reason.
For real though, in my experience "incompatable value systems" often turn out to be less terminally different than they appear, and are just (perhaps vastly) different strategies with based on different positions/beliefs.
For example, I have a friend who was closed to the idea of monogamy in principle - even to the idea of being with someone who wanted monogamy with her. After much talkin...
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Although polyamory isn't one of the "official" topics of LW interest (human cognition, AI, probability, etc...), this is the only community I'm part of where I expect a sufficiently high number of members to have experience with it to give useful feedback.
If you go looking for advice or articles about polyamory on the internet, you mostly get stuff written by polyamorists that are happy with their decisions. Is this selection bias? Where are the people whose relationships (or social lives, out anything) got damaged or ruined by experimenting with Consensual Non-Monogamy?
I'm posting this hoping for feedback, negative AND positive, on experiences with polyamory. I considered putting this in an Open Thread, but it occurred to me that many other LW readers might be interested in whether polyamory has drawbacks they need to be aware of. If you have experience with CNM (including first-hand witnessing, which has the added bonus of not requiring you to out yourself while still participating in the dialogue), please comment with your overall impression and as much detail as you would like to include (I am also putting my experiences there rather than in this post). If you've seen multiple poly relationships, multiple comments would make tallying slightly easier. I will try to upvote people who feed me data, a la LW surveys. If there are sufficient comments, I will periodically go through them and post a rough ratio of good to bad experiences at the bottom of this article.
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