LadyPact -> RE: What to do when S.O. has sex with another girl (7/15/2012 1:23:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: wildernessbitch Sorry, since you said she was not monogamous it sounds like you are inferring that she is poly. I do not believe that everyone who cheats would qualify as being poly. quote:
Hrrrmmmm... perhaps I'm not versed well enough in these words. But I kind of thought that polyamorous was what you were when you weren't monogamous. I wonder if I'm using sociologist/biologist definitions and that's the confusion. But yeah... if they're not monogamous then they gotta be something else, right? See in case b... I totally agree. I didn't mean them as "cases". I meant they were both true. You have a dishonorable person who is not "wired" monogamously. It means exclusively being with one person. A person could cheat once and never do it again though so what would you call that person? I'd call that person ?polyamorous? in that moment (along with dishonorable). Then I'd need to consider a larger view of them to ponder some sort of overall characterization. Sorry, that doesn't make a person poly. It makes them a person who has cheated. That still falls under the umbrella on non-monogamy. Open relationships are also considered non-monogamy, but that doesn't make open relationships poly, either. If you are really looking for two categories, there is monogamy (which is pretty straight forward) and non monogamy, which can be anything that is something other than one on one. Those various sub categories don't necessarily equate each other and why they all have various terms to describe them all. OP, I agree with everything that was said here by those who said don't label yourself a Dominant just because you have trouble navigating relationships. Being Dominant, as you have come to learn, doesn't prevent poor behavior in your partners. It's not the easier path to better relationships or a way to never get hurt. Here's what you really need to ask yourself. Does it really matter to you the gender of who your SO cheated with? Did it change anything about the betrayal that was committed because of the *kind* of sex she was after? For the record, I agree with Chris Rock. Sex is not an accident. It's not like you are walking down the street, tripped, and your genitals are suddenly up close and personal to another person's genitals.
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