sc94597 on 26 May 2015
| fleischr said: It takes incredibly unselfish (both sexually and emotionally) individuals to make something like this work. In the short run, it could seem to work. But I don't think it's a very good long term proposition for anyone. It's challenging enough to have one partner, let alone multiple ones who will likely compete with each other. |
I think the hard part of a monoamorous relationship is that people make a lot of assumptions about the code from which they and their partner must live by and often these assumptions conflict. With a polyamorous relationship you need to set the codes from the start, and it gives the relationship more of a clear-cut structure. So I can definitely see how both situations can work, and how polyamorous ones do work currently. If anything it seems to me as if polyamorous relationships tend to have a lot of cooperation, and having more than two people can definitely help divide tasks among the family, ease the workload of real-life stressors. So like any setup, there are advantages and disadvantages, but I can't see why it wouldn't work.
