polyamory robs many conventional stories of their dramatic tension. take the return of the king movie, that i saw today: aragorn clearly felt for eowyn, so why couldn't he have simply given her some loving healing? what? it's nobler in the mind for a healer to stay chaste and let a cherished companion suffer? maybe he just wasn't that into her.

something freeing about polyamory is that you don't feel that your partner has to be everything you could possibly want from someone. and this lets you open up to a lot more people ( Read more... )