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How I Know Things Are Getting Better in Polyamory
After a period of polyamory-induced despair, I’m beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel
I’ll be honest: this story about my life improving since my polyamory-induced mental health crisis has been sitting in my Google Docs folder for multiple weeks. I wrote it when I was feeling good, but since then, there have been several ups and downs. It almost felt dishonest to publish a claim that things were getting better when I wasn’t feeling it.
Now, however, I think that gives me all the more reason to publish it.
All of what I’ve written is still true. Things are getting better, even if I don’t always feel good. Identifying specific areas of change and growth is even more important when it’s hard to feel.
So here’s the scoop…
The constantly-shifting tides of life and polyamory
The past eight months or so have been some of the hardest of my life, largely due to some big changes in my polyamorous relationship.
My primary partner, Drake, began dating someone seriously for the first time just as I decided to take a break from dating to focus on going back to school and changing my career. School was tough…
