yknow whats better than a polycule of 3 living in a house? a polycule of 24 living in a cool badass gay fortress

Something something late stage capitalism undermining its own social reproduction by making monogamous patriarchy financially unsustainable.

My ex-husband and I got into a poly relationship. He left me and we separated. He kept dating our third for a few months. They broke up and my ex tried blaming the breakup on the third instead of taking responsibility for his actions. We were kinda toxic with the third and the whole situation icked me out. I know I didn't use a lot of pronouns but we were gay and the third was a bi man. He actually ended up dating a girl after our drama. I'm finally recovering financially from the divorce and I'm starting to date again. I'm moving out of my sister's house tmr.

Polygamy sounds amazing to everyone until they actually try it and deal with the drama like one person in the polycule only being there for another person and actively attempting to rip them out of the situation, with all the drama that comes with that.

Polyamory has been relatively drama free for me for 6 years. Not any more drama than I'd have in a monogamous relationship.

I think it's highly dependent on individual situations. Both monogamy and polyamory can be peaceful and delightful, or awful drama filled trainwrecks. I would argue that it is easier to have bad drama with polyamory simply because there are more variables and people involved, but it's not inherently more dramatic.

I find it freeing to not have to worry about my partners "cheating" or getting involved with other people. They found someone new? Good. They're probably a cutie who I'll get along with, even if we never get close with each other. Whether or not my partners love me or if we're as close as I want is a whole separate matter from how much they love other people. There is still plenty that can go wrong in the relationship, but other people won't be the issue.

this person gets it

the only downside is that once you figure that out most romcoms stop making any sense

Exactly. The expectation of exclusive love creates like half of the drama and jealousy

That's why we have kitchen table poly. If everyone's partners can't sit at a kitchen table together, they won't be a partner.

Polyamory*

Polygamy is something completely different.

Unicorn hunting just got a level up ._.

No such thing as unicorns on Grindr. Everybody is looking to fuck

I thought a unicorn was a woman and a man looking for a bisexual woman to join them? 🤔

They would be the unicorn hunters and she would be the unicorn

You know you can just have flatmates, right?

Where do you find a flatmate who's willing to be third wheel?

Where's the fun in that?

there is no sexual obligation, it isn’t ruled out either

Relationships fo also come wothout sexual obligations by the way, you're not required to have sex with your partner.

lol

nothing like a healthy dose of sex to smoothen the discussion of who's turn it is to order pizza

Gas, grass or ass. No one stays for free.

I'm paying rent, Dave.

flat sounds great

the billionairs want us all to become poly

oligarchs accidentally killing the nuclear family by making housing and childcare unaffordable

I've been of the opinion that it hasn't been accidental for a while now. No hate against poly, and I'm not entirely sure for what purpose.

Maybe they want less introspective and intelligent people having kids (because they realize they can't afford them instead of just having them on accident), so the next generation is more easily led?

I dunno.

I think they just want line to go up and can't hold themselves back from trying to take everything they can. The current generation are wealth addicts with no self control who are incapable of enacting long term plans. They are so out of touch and lack so much perspective that they can't even comprehend their own ineptitude.

Capitalists want high fertility rates so the price of labor is kept low, but they don't want to fundamentally change things to make it happen. They invest heavily in conservatism and anti-intellectualism because it's easy, but not only are the results lackluster, the costs are too high. Countries that haven't gutted public education and social services have a distinct advantage over those that let private interests make every decision, as oligarchs make poor public planners.

In the long run, the rich will not only cause the downfall of wealthy empires like the US, but cause a surge in nationalism and an end to free trade. Even if they move as much wealth as possible to their next target country, they are creating a world where they are no longer as dominant because nationalistic governments will once again taken center stage. They will never have a better deal than neoliberalism, and as that very ideology destabilizes the liberal world order, they'll lose many privileges they take for granted.

New nuclear family will be:

Daddy

Cougar momma

Sugar baby

Twink boy

Perfect, as the twink boy and sugar baby grow they eventually become the daddy and cougar momma. The they add a new twink boy and sugar baby. A completely self sustaining family unit. A poly dynasty

Home is where the twink is?

That's way too many people to deal with on a constant basis. Ill go and live in a shack in the middle of deep forest.

Me too, what are they gonna do? Call the IRS?

More twink for me

Fair, all yours.

Better to invite another couple to live with them, then they'll have four incomes, instead of a third wheel & possible homewrecker.

The term “homewrecker” needs to be retired, like, yesterday.

Yeah, total trad puritan BS mindset. Don't know who downvoted you. Sexual liberation has yet to come to a lot of people, it seems.

"Homewrecked" would have more sense if every couple could afford their own home.

foresomes 🤤

That's the spirit!

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