You Want To Be Non-Monogamous but Your Partner Doesn’t
Where do you go from here?
I used to think that in order to be loved, in order to be in a “real” relationship, I needed to want to be with one person and only that one person for the rest of my life.
That’s what all of us were taught in fact.
If you were in a relationship and wanted to be with someone else sexually or romantically, your only three options were the following:
- Shut down the desire completely (doesn’t really work).
- Cheat.
- Break up.
But in reality, there is another choice.
And that is, of course, non-monogamy. You can be in a relationship where one or both partners honestly and consensually have romantic and/or sexual relationships with other people.
Many people out there are just starting to realize this now.
And many of those same people are realizing that while they are already in a relationship in which they’ve been monogamous for years already.
They’re realizing there are other ways to do love that may fit them better.
And that’s amazing.
