strangeden ([info]strangeden) wrote,
@ 2007-04-04 17:44:00
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[info]canray
2007-04-04 11:43 pm UTC (link)
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight, and that's why there's no divorce in Mono-Marrages.

Bah, give me Poly any day of the week! Always someone to cuddle. *Blushes*

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[info]siobhan_1
2007-04-05 04:54 am UTC (link)
there's always the "midlife crisis" explanation - mono people go poly, poly people go mono...

incidentally, everytime I hear the polly pocket doll commercial for "pollyworld" I reallllly don't picture it the way the marketers would expect...

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[info]strangeden
2007-04-05 01:44 pm UTC (link)
LOL.

:)

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[info]maereth
2007-04-05 11:36 am UTC (link)
I first heard of poly in my 20's in college when my roomate "decided" that she was poly and was explaining to me what being poly was SO much better than mono. Of course, she was also a lesbian for a while, too. Now that I'm a bit older, I DO know a few successful poly couples (albeit child-free), but they're not the same "OMG everyone much be poly!" brand that I met in college.

I think when people first hear of an idea that is so different from the "norm" that it almost HAS to work out, you know? For my roomate that was having a hard time, everything that was "wrong" with a mono relationship was "solved" just by making it poly.

But all relationships are work, and you're right, none of them come with a guarantee of happiness.

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[info]strangeden
2007-04-05 01:44 pm UTC (link)
I'm in favor of all types of relationships, whatever works for the people involved. :)

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[info]maereth
2007-04-05 01:56 pm UTC (link)
I need to remember not to post before having coffee in the morning because often what I mean to say and what comes out aren't quite equivalent.

I very much agree with your comments, I was more responding to the part of the comic "because poly relationships don't come with a guarentee of happiness" and just reflecting on how it seemed that when people I knew first heard of poly, they thought it would automatically solve all their problems and it came with that guarentee, and that you were right, no relationship comes with that.

And the child-free comment wasn't to say that poly "couples" with kids aren't successful, I just don't know ANY couples with kids yet, poly or mono. Kids add a whole new dimension to any relationship.

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[info]strangeden
2007-04-07 09:53 pm UTC (link)
Kids add all kinds of stuff. Puke, braces, small household fires, you name it. :)

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[info]schnee
2007-04-06 08:21 pm UTC (link)
Ah, yes... ultimately, it's all about happiness, right? I sometimes wonder whether it wouldn't be better if people just stopped using labels like "poly" or "mono" (or "gay" or "straight" or "bi" and so on, for that matter) and started caring about whether things made them/their partner(s) happy instead of whether they fit into this or that drawer. :)

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[info]strangeden
2007-04-07 09:52 pm UTC (link)
You might be onto something there.

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[info]schnee
2007-04-07 09:54 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. ^.^

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