- Joined
- Jul 12, 2017
Ok since stories of our experience of people who are poly are a thing here I'll tell the story if my one friend who decided they were poly.
I met this guy about 14 years ago. At the time he was dating the woman he would later marry. They seemed a good couple and I got on with both pretty well. I moved away for work and didn't keep a huge amount of contact with them but when I visited family etc I would usually meet them down the pub. They got married and had a couple of kids, bought a house pretty normal stuff really.
About 4 years ago I moved back for another job and reconnected with them, things weren't going too well and they were heading for divorce. About 6 months after the divorce he invited loads of us to his house to make "a big announcement" it was essentially him "coming out" as poly, describing how much love he had to give and how he can't force others into monogamy (and all the other cliché poly lines). It was basically telling us we are going to see him with lots of different non-exclusive girlfriends (like yeah, you're a single guy). After that if you hung out with him alone he was still cool but if one of his hoes was with him it would be preechy lecturing about the evils of monogamous relationships.
He "dated" about 6 different (subpar) women for a while until he met number 7, see number 7 is at least an 8/10 and is generally someone who's fun to be around. Well they went on one date and at the end of the date told him it was his choice if date number 2 would happen, the choice was the 6 gutter skanks or her exclusivity. He dropped all the hoes that evening and threw another party to announce he is actually monogamous and with the new girl (he likes to throw parties to announce things). Incidentally one of his gutter trash girls had apparently been trying to get him to be monogamously with her and tried to off herself a few times over this announcement and still is not over it to the point he is all she talks about on social media (well him and depression/suicide).
For a while all was well with the world and you could hang out with him without any poly nonsense. But wait there's more, he decided another party was in order for another announcement, this time it was they've decided that they can't be part of the evils of the meat industry so are now vegan.
So he's replaced "hi, I'm poly" with "hi, I'm a vegan". One "morally superior" trendy lefty attention seeking cause for another I suppose.
About 4 years ago I moved back for another job and reconnected with them, things weren't going too well and they were heading for divorce. About 6 months after the divorce he invited loads of us to his house to make "a big announcement" it was essentially him "coming out" as poly, describing how much love he had to give and how he can't force others into monogamy (and all the other cliché poly lines). It was basically telling us we are going to see him with lots of different non-exclusive girlfriends (like yeah, you're a single guy). After that if you hung out with him alone he was still cool but if one of his hoes was with him it would be preechy lecturing about the evils of monogamous relationships.
He "dated" about 6 different (subpar) women for a while until he met number 7, see number 7 is at least an 8/10 and is generally someone who's fun to be around. Well they went on one date and at the end of the date told him it was his choice if date number 2 would happen, the choice was the 6 gutter skanks or her exclusivity. He dropped all the hoes that evening and threw another party to announce he is actually monogamous and with the new girl (he likes to throw parties to announce things). Incidentally one of his gutter trash girls had apparently been trying to get him to be monogamously with her and tried to off herself a few times over this announcement and still is not over it to the point he is all she talks about on social media (well him and depression/suicide).
For a while all was well with the world and you could hang out with him without any poly nonsense. But wait there's more, he decided another party was in order for another announcement, this time it was they've decided that they can't be part of the evils of the meat industry so are now vegan.
So he's replaced "hi, I'm poly" with "hi, I'm a vegan". One "morally superior" trendy lefty attention seeking cause for another I suppose.
