home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.polyamory
- Path: sparky!uunet!news.gtech.com!noc.near.net!meiko.com!lorreen
- From: lorreen@meiko.com (Lorreen Pelletier)
- Subject: Re: Pete the Ignorant
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.152927.421@meiko.com>
- Organization: Meiko Scientific Corp.
- References: <C1D8xC.1F1@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:29:27 GMT
- Lines: 56
-
- pjbulfor@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Pete "the Frog" Bulford) writes:
-
- : >> [intro to Pete's life starting as a poly-person...]
- : >
- : >[Some advice for Pete]
- :
- : <Sigh> This poly-stuff is much more complicated in action
- : than in words.
-
- You've said a mouthful there, Pete. One thing I think is great about this
- group, is that no-one here is likely to bullshit about some utopian ideals
- and claim that there aren't difficulties to overcome in living a poly
- lifestyle, after all, what kind of lifestyle _doesn't_ contain difficulties
- of some sort?
-
- I wish you luck, and, much like the previous poster, advise "be careful".
- I've always had the luck to be primary, with someone who was my primary
- (usually mono or nearly mono, by the way), and be secondary, to those who have
- been my secondaries. I sense that being secondary to one's primary, might
- be a little more difficult, emotionally--but only you can really be the
- judge of that. In my own life, I admit, I've bowed out of such
- relationships--if I meet someone who seems about to place me in "primary"
- position, when I know that for me they will be secondary, I tend to excuse
- myself from those relationships (as sensitively as possible), because I'm
- terribly afraid of hurting someone (I've also got a sense in these
- situations that I'm dealing with "mono" people who would not be open to a
- poly relationship, and I'm unwilling to force my lifestyle on others).
-
- Since you are fully aware of your girlfriend's poly inclinations, and are
- happy to get involved, your situation seems pretty distinct from the
- scenarios I've experienced, so as long as you keep in touch with your own
- feelings, and keep communicating with your partner, I think you could have
- a pretty good relationship going.
-
- I noticed that one response to your concerns suggests trying out a
- "threesome". I've been involved on a couple of occasions with a three-way
- sex thing, but never in the context of a three-way poly relationship, i.e.
- there have been a couple of casual encounters with, for example, a
- boyfriend and one of his male friends--but never between me and two
- "friends" distinctively of my choosing. In poly relationships I find it
- more comfortable to meet new friends independently, and keep relationships
- separate, but not hidden. I think different things work for different
- people, so choose to do what you are most comfortable with. Also, as you
- said, her "other" is out of town for a while, so this wasn't a real option
- for you anyway.
-
- Okay, enough running off at the mouth. Keep the progress reports coming.
-
- --Lorreen
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-