Coming Out Poly

I think that there is a big misconception when it comes to feelings of jealousy/envy/inadequacy when it comes to polyamorous relationships.

Many people I have spoken with assume that we either a) don’t have those feelings at all because the people in the relationship don’t mean that much to each other or b) have them all the time, which leads to a “revelation moment” where everyone drops out of the relationship pissed and angry, never to speak with each other again.

Last year, Nyla and I had a woman from LSU call us for an interview regarding non-traditional relationships. We spoke a lot about our newly open marriage, jealousy, intimacy, and a number of other things. It was a good discussion, and I should be getting the transcripts from that interview here in the next few days, which will be nice to read in light of this new bit of information. One of the big issues in a non-traditional, non-monogamous relationship is jealousy.