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One of the biggest concerns/complaints that I hear from poly newbies (or, rather, from monogamous partners of poly newbies who are only reluctantly poly) is the division of time. If I work 8 hours a day, spend 1 hour a day in commute traffic, and sleep 8 hours a day, that gives me only 6 hours a day with my spouse. If some of that
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I think this's something that's gotten lost with a lot of cultural shifts over the last few years where extended families have become broken up & increasingly rare so "big gatherings" are less common, and as there's been more focus on the couple as the basic family unit with kids coming later & often 1 kid being the norm & parents having it hammered in to them by many means that they need "alone time" to focus on being a couple (which I'd say is necessary to a point but not in the way it's promoted).
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The only people this post doesn't apply to are monogamous couples who have no children and no ties to extended family and no friends whom they treat as intentional family. If that's the case, they're probably not reading my journal anyway.
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