r/polyamory

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Whooo boy. Polyamory.
I'm gonna have to echo @Vrakks here and say the idea of polyamory being placed on the same pedestal as real relationships disturbs me for reasons I can't quite define. I mean, one of the points of long-term relationships or marriages is that you're effectively saying to your partner, I love you so much that I want to spend my life with you and only you. You're meant to have a bond with them that can't be duplicated with anyone else. Maybe it doesn't work out like that all the time in the real world, but it's still what should be aimed for.

I've known a polyamorous group. What irked me the most about them is just how much their lives revolved around their polyamory. Every conversation would inevitably turn to "Well, my partner's boyfriend..." And there was this one poor sad sack who clearly didn't want to be polyamorous, but was also still clearly so under the thumb of his girlfriend that he couldn't say no to her. Eventually the whole thing fell apart when someone started sleeping with someone who wasn't part of the "gang".
 
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Man, the poor husband.
This is just a hive of degeneracy and cuckoldry.

Why even get married in the first place if you're just going to easily disregard what the other person is feeling? Also I can tell she wants more from C but C doesn't from her. Like she wants to date him or something because she gives an awful lot of excuses for his awful behavior. Her husband should divorce her tbh because C won't commit to her and she sounds like a teenage girl that just realized hot guys are hot.
 
:optimistic: I honestly don't see the harm in poly relationships so long as everyone involved is OK with it, but so many of these people blatantly use it as a crutch for their sexual and emotional hang-ups it's not even funny. You've got people jumping between partners when there's any sort of conflict, refusing to reflect on why they can't develop a meaningful relationship as resentment starts building on all sides, and then you've got the people who act like it's empowering to move from bed to bed like they're Third-wave Goldilocks. You wanna bang multiple people, whatever, you do you, but don't act like you're so ~enlightened~ and open-minded when you're too emotionally stunted to maintain a relationship with one person, much less five. I think poly relationships can work, but it takes a lot more emotional maturity than I'm seeing here.

(Also these screenshots are simultaneously the most pathetic and hilarious things I've seen in a while jesus christ.)
 
My understanding is that "Polyamory" is a politically correct term for Consentual Cuckoldry?

Kind of. A lot of poly relationships are very one-sided, with one person wanting to fuck other people without ending the relationship, and the other agrees because they don't want to rock the boat.

A major fallacy among poly people is that sex isn't that big of a deal. It's just 'insert tab A into slot B, feel good'. The corollary to this is that people can voluntarily control their emotions when it comes to sex, i.e., "We've agreed this is casual sex, so as long as we decide not to develop feelings, we won't." "Sex is just a physical activity, so adding it to our dating/friendship won't change our relationship." "My partner promised not to feel jealous because I'm not monogamous, but they're betraying me by feeling jealousy anyway!" In these situations, the first person to get emotional "loses", as the other simply states that they're the rational one in the relationship, therefore they win. This goes over about as well as you expect.

There's also a wide streak of hipster-ism in sex, where the weirder you are, the cooler you are. Geeks have a tendency to mistake "less mainstream" for "better," and to conclude that sex that least resembles the mainstream is both the sexiest and the most virtuous. So polyamory gets seen as more enlightened than monogamy, kink gets seen as sexier than vanilla, and monogamous vanilla geeks get a big steaming pile of "I guess you're just not very open-minded," and labeled a no-funster. Drama ensues.
 
:optimistic: I honestly don't see the harm in poly relationships so long as everyone involved is OK with it, but so many of these people blatantly use it as a crutch for their sexual and emotional hang-ups it's not even funny. You've got people jumping between partners when there's any sort of conflict, refusing to reflect on why they can't develop a meaningful relationship as resentment starts building on all sides, and then you've got the people who act like it's empowering to move from bed to bed like they're Third-wave Goldilocks. You wanna bang multiple people, whatever, you do you, but don't act like you're so ~enlightened~ and open-minded when you're too emotionally stunted to maintain a relationship with one person, much less five. I think poly relationships can work, but it takes a lot more emotional maturity than I'm seeing here.

(Also these screenshots are simultaneously the most pathetic and hilarious things I've seen in a while jesus christ.)

I have to politely disagree. I remember a lot of similar posts about how polyamory 'could work' in the beginning of the Jake Rapp thread, and alot of those posts referenced the need for 'both partners to be okay with it' and for both to have 'emotional maturity'. To be perfectly honest though, I don't think you can just hand wave away the issues polyamory causes with 'emotional maturity'. Although evolutionary psychology is controversial, its reasonable to suspect humans are predisposed to monogamy by evolution. All over the world, even in sparsely contacted amazon tribes and obscure african pygmy societies there are monogamous relationships and families. That doesn't mean monogamy is perfect or faultless, but it obviously isn't just a cultural gimmick. In the 1960s people had the idea that they'd create 'free love' communes where anyone could love anyone, but there are countless stories of those same communes collapsing from jealousy. I think I see where you're coming from but I just don't think people are blank slates that can 'learn' to break their inner nature, no matter how mature they are emotionally.
 
I have never known a single individual who advocated poly relationships that wasn't at least showing signs of outright lolcowdom.
yea and it changes people. like here, ill grab this again because i think its kinda relevant

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This idiot is basically saying "force this asshole on a date with you because you'll make them trust you". Textbook grooming. Then you consider hatching theory, and basically you come to understand that the prevalence of trans people in society is based on easily manipulated people being groomed by predators, the manipulated morons learning the behavior of the predators as normal behavior among open, enlightened minds, and then the cycle recurses. its p sick tbh
 
Why even get married in the first place if you're just going to easily disregard what the other person is feeling? Also I can tell she wants more from C but C doesn't from her. Like she wants to date him or something because she gives an awful lot of excuses for his awful behavior. Her husband should divorce her tbh because C won't commit to her and she sounds like a teenage girl that just realized hot guys are hot.

Poly people want all of the benefits of a relationship, both sexual and not, without having to do the work of maintaining the relationship or giving a fuck about their partners. When they start asking you for something, including respect for their boundaries, that's when the fuse on the drama bomb is lit.
 
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Am I the only one who thinks the rapist story would be even funnier if the rape victim partner was making it up out of jealousy?

This thread could be entirely fueled by ambling into any poly subreddit and expressing confusion as to how other people fucking their wife/partner doesn't make them a cuck. There is always some arcane formula that clearly spells out how OP is not a cuck.
 
Sorry if this is late or dumb but what's 'hatching theory'?
tranny predator finds effeminate, insecure gay man - an 'egg', convinces them through manipulation, peer pressure etc that they're not a cis gay but a transwoman, makes them get the usual hormone treatment and surgery. that last bit is the hatching. a new unhappy unstable troon is born.
 
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