Bab5cheetah
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Polyamory
I figured this was probably the closest forum to put it in... 0_o
Has anyone here even heard of it before? I know I mentioned it in class once, and the teacher told me to stop reading dictionaries. He was an idiot anyway, even the other teachers agreed.
But still, I find that it has rarely been heard of. Is that the case here, as well?
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Oct/21/2007, 9:33 pm
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I had to go to wikipedia to see what I could find. I likened it to polygamy. I am familiar with polygamy and I did understand what I read about polyamory. I'll be glad to discuss and learn. I noticed you mentioned there was 9 of you in your home. So if this is the lifestyle your family lives and you would like to talk about it please feel welcome to.
I would say typical families here around me (I live in Pennsylvania, United States) consist of a Mother and children. Most times the Mother has remarried and it is a step family. I would think Mom and Dads staying together raising their children, married for live is the minority. I could be wrong. I think most families are single parent families or step families though.
So even though I am not familiar please feel free to discuss if you are curious or share if this is your type of family structure. Our structure here is single parent family. Me and the children's father split up last year.
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Well, one of those nine is just a border, but the rest... yep, we're all one big family.
There is mum, dad and AJ, all in the one relationship. Then there is me, only child for nine years or so. Then my two 'sisters' and two 'brothers', AJ's children. One of my sisters (the younger of the two) is autistic and a celiac, one of my brothers (the elder of the two) is lactose intolerant.
Basically, for anyone who can understand polyamory, it's pretty simple. It's just that most people can't even handle the first sentence of that description.
Oh, and the relationship is a triangle, not a V. One of my school friends had me draw up a family tree and then was disturbed when I put mum in the middle (not on purpose, that's just how it ended up). She didn't care that it didn't matter, she was still adamant that dad should have been in the middle lol.
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Did your father, father AJ's children? And I love how your friend was adamant & wanted Dad in the middle, lol.
When I saw AJ, I automatically assumed male. We have an AJ here who is one of my boys friends. But I am thinking AJ in your case is female?
Now is polyamory popular / accepted where you live? Or do folks see it as not an accepted lifestyle?
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It isn't exactly popular or accepted in NZ, but that doesn't stop my parents.
AJ is female, yes. It's just that I'm not allowed to use names but have never caled her anything else. It's short for Aunty (not allowed to say). And no, dad did not father any of the other kids. The eldest (the older sister) and the next one down were fathered by one person, and the other sister and brother were fathered by another.
I've always thought it funny how, in age order, it goes sister brother sister brother.
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