Jealousy Management

[c9]

Fascinating article on polyamory.

Let's assume your relationship is a refrigerator. One day, a problem arises in your relationship--the refrigerator quits working. You walk into your kitchen, there's a puddle on the floor, and all your frozen pizzas and ice cream are a gooey mass in the bottom of the freezer. There are a few things you can do at this point, once you've mopped up the mess and scraped the remains of last night's lunch out of the fridge. One solution is to fix the refrigerator; another is to replace it. A third solution is to leave the refrigerator exactly where it is and change your life around the problem--"From this day forward, I will bring no frozen or refrigerated foods into this house." - http://ping.fm/dBTNc

Comments

[bartok.livejournal.com]

You'll have to excuse that I tuned out of the article after a while since it turned into "you need communicate with your partner and analyse your feelings" over and over.

I'm a bit flummoxed though by this whole concept of "polyamory" though since I can't really tell the difference between it and just having friends (plus the fact it sounds like the brand-name for a car-polish).

Except that you occasionally shag them.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Well, there's no such thing as Official Polyamory™ as I understand it, and everyone finds their own way.

I would imagine that friends with benefits is significantly different from those who truly believe in truly loving multiple others. But *shrug*. Like most everything, there are those that it makes sense to, and those that it doesn't. Like Sudoku, or yogurt.

[bartok.livejournal.com]

or Christianinanity.