maybe I'm just being unusually dense this afternoon [*chuckle*]</> No prob. I'm fluffier than usual--I've been on cold medicine for two days straight. Last night's Nyquil still hasn't worn off completely.
I'd say about the only thing one can do is to freely talk about how you two go about dealing with such situations to those people who show interest or curiosity. You're not going to reach the people who aren't ready to listen. I know, I know. I'm fussing too much. I just can't help reacting to the tickle in the back of my mind, that sidhe612's comment set off. Part of me can't help wondering if, while I can't really do anything about it, it might help to at least be aware that it exists.
While soxnboxrs and I have an open relationship, I really wouldn't consider us poly. [Probably the best way I'd have of describing us would be emotionally monogamous but sexually non-monogamous.] So, I think our perspectives are a little bit different. True, but from what I've seen, you two seem very functional, and that takes honest communication, just like what By & I, and classics_cat & ranjtheobscure do. And well, some of our relationships outside of our primaries (speaking for By & I, anyway) have been more on the non-monogamy end of the spectrum than the poly end. Like the lady said, it takes the same set of skills. It may take less in-depth negotiation for the "sport" liasons, but you still need to set up the parameters of what's acceptable to you and your primary.
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Date: 2003-10-03 02:09 pm (UTC)No prob. I'm fluffier than usual--I've been on cold medicine for two days straight. Last night's Nyquil still hasn't worn off completely.
I'd say about the only thing one can do is to freely talk about how you two go about dealing with such situations to those people who show interest or curiosity. You're not going to reach the people who aren't ready to listen.
I know, I know. I'm fussing too much. I just can't help reacting to the tickle in the back of my mind, that
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True, but from what I've seen, you two seem very functional, and that takes honest communication, just like what By & I, and