angelikaJ
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I was overwhelmed with the amount of replies and the seemingly mean nature of many of the comments. I went through the thread this morning, thoughtfully. And I saw 3, possibly 4 replies (out of more than 30) that might be construed as "mean" , and of those, I think only one really was... from my perspective. I don't think 10- 12% is many, but apparently you do. So why are you so upset about those few? Most of the people there validated your feeling hurt and did not put you down. What were you hoping to hear? It is none of my business but I am wondering if what you were hoping to hear was some kind of magic formula on how not to feel legitimately hurt (and consequently angry)... ? Either you are okay with his seeing someone else, when there was a promise of monogamy, or you aren't. Either his being in a poly(amorous) arrangement is something you can live with, or it isn't. (One does not have to be completely happy with something to live with it.) And perhaps most important, either it is okay that he behaved without integrity or it isn't. If you are considering staying with him, then you may find information on Poly-type relationships helpful. Here are 2 pieces that others have found useful: http://www.xeromag.com/making_relationships_suck.pdf edit to replace link "Florida Poly Retreat 2008 How to Screw Up a Poly Relationship (and make everyone miserable while you’re at it) If you are interested in building strong, healthy polyamorous relationships which allow everyone involved to grow and to seek happiness, there are many resources out there that can help you. You’ll find books, Web sites (including mine!), and all sorts of guide-lines that can give you tools to make your relationships better.This is not one of those resources.This is a guideline for developing the tools and techniques to reduce your relationships to smoking craters, and to maximize the chances of catastrophic failure and personal unhappiness. Along the way, we’ll talk about techniques to create rigid and confining relationship rules, use boundaries as blunt instruments, and make hostile environ-ments guaranteed to make your partners unhappy.If that doesn’t sound like your thing, you might want to read this anyway so as to get asense of what not to do. " http://www.heartless-bitches.com/rants/elise.shtml "How to f*** up The preceding list of answers to questions about polyamory is not a guide to how to have a working polyamorous relationship, although we have strong anecdotal evidence that the tools mentioned are useful in all sorts of relationships, mono and poly. We do, however, have the following guide of carefully tested methods for making mistakes in polyamorous relationships. With proper application and ingenuity, these methods may impair or destroy monogamous relationships as well; they're truly multipurpose tools. We post this listing for your consideration; no liability expressed or implied. "
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