IvyMorgan
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Joined: 7/5/2007 From: Midlands, UK Status: offline
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*throws her hat in the "I'm poly" ring* I have served more than one person at once, there was a heirarchy, everyone knew their place, and it all flowed. I have been in situations where one personality has one partner, and another personality has another. That takes more work, but is doable almost, though it's easier if we can all just agree to share a relationship (but then finding someone to have that relationship with gets harder). I like the idea of a "household" or "family" set up, I think I could feel comfortable like that, as Calla said, there are things I am not suited to and things that I am, and that could be taken into account without the people/person/unit that I am serving being detrimented, becuase there are other people with complimentary things they are suited to/good at/bad at/like/dislike and so on. In some ways, I can "specialise" more, or play more to my individual strengths, or be more of an individual, instead of trying to be "everything" for another person and feeling that that is beyond what I am capable of. e.g. I can cook, I can't mend a car, I tend to destroy clothes when I iron them, and kill plants by looking at them, I can teach French grammar to children, and translate emails written in Spanish, I can sew buttons, I can't make decent coffee. Similarly, a dominant doesn't have to be "everything" to all of the mes if there is more than one of them. They can play to their strengths, likes, dislikes, limits etc and not compromise themselves, whilst I also do not have to compromise on things that I enjoy/want from a relationship/partnership. I suck at explaining why I like poly. I think I'm worse at making coffee, but only slightly.
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