Poly

[eevee]

For those somehow not yet aware, I'm dating Mel (aka PurpleKecleon), and have been for some two and a half years. She is also married, and has been for about the same amount of time

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[two_pi_r]

We got this for a while. It's particularly amusing when we were all living together, because Lauren would say something like "No, I manage to keep both of them in the dark when their rooms are right next to each other."

Nowadays I tend to avoid this by deliberately using constructions like "my girlfriend's boyfriend".

I also have to disambiguate between "my boyfriend" and "my boyfriend who is also dating my girlfriend", but that's entirely a different thing.

[eevee]

I bust out the "my girlfriend's husband" when appropriate, but we don't interact that much so that isn't very often. I guess it doesn't help that everyone regards me as subordinate, because clearly marriage is 'superior' to dating.

Sounds like a great opportunity to attach modifiers all over the place. "My mono boyfriend", "my coboyfriend", etc.

[two_pi_r]

The all-purpose modifier Jarrod uses is "co-"; I tend towards "meta-".

Further amusement can be derived from Jarrod's girlfriend (the one that isn't also mine) dating another guy named Jared.

For some reason people think this is complicated. I probably should break out the common lisp program I used to diagram this thing more often.

[eevee]

Yes I may need a graph (in the nodes/edges sense) of some kind here.

[krinndnz]

For some reason people think this is complicated. I probably should break out the common lisp program I used to diagram this thing more often.

Yes. Yes, you should.

[krinndnz]

I am fond of candiedmouth's construction: they have a husband and a boyfriend-in-law.

I am moderately fortunate in that I can simply refer to "my boyfriend" and "my girlfriend" and I have even done so in the same sentence without people quite processing it.

[two_pi_r]

At lunch one day, I got a comment from $coworker about how it always throws him off when I mention "my boyfriend" in close verbal proximity to "my girlfriend". I said that I do that on purpose. :)