Funny RL story from a newly poly person

Nov 23, 2011 10:13

http://freethoughtblogs.com/wwjtd/2011/11/17/adventures-in-polyamory/

My favorite lines:
"love is not like a bathtub; somebody doesn’t need to get out to make room for someone else."
I thought I had heard all the poly similes -- but this one is new to me!

"Sex is a magical topic.  It’s so interesting that with the proper approach its introduction can ( Read more... )

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syredronning November 24 2011, 18:37:47 UTC
No time right now to read the article, but I love the bathtub comparison - although for myself, it's still a bathtub *hides* :)

A friend of ours lately used the image of intensive and extensive properties in physics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_and_extensive_properties

However, for me, love (or maybe time and intensity, but I'm unable to separate that) *is* limited in my heart, so the images are nice but fall flat as long as it doesn't work like that for me.

I'm not saying it couldn't change in the future, but I didn't experience it yet. (Definitely not as far as the Draws tribe yet *G*)

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shagungu November 24 2011, 18:47:26 UTC
heh, I hadn't heard the intensive vs extensive metaphor for poly either. Interesting!

Don't give yourself a poly inferiority complex -- there is nothing wrong with the way you work. All part of the diversity of humanity......

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