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IF YOU ARE MONOAMOROUS AND ENTERING RELATIONSHIP WITH A POLYAMOROUS PERSON: FUCKING TALK ABT IT AT THE BEGINNING. My boyfriend knew I had a boyfriend going into this relationship and now he keeps talking abt how it hurts him and he’s not comfortable 💔
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Anonymous 5w

I made it so so clear in the beginning and now he’s talking about how hurt he is that I didn’t let him know the details of the other day bc it seemed like I was hiding it but in the past when I’ve told him in the sake of openness he’s gotten uncomfortable too. Idk what the right thing to do here is. I don’t want to lose either of them. Is it really as simple as- it’s not my fault and I don’t have to change who I am?

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Anonymous 5w

Legit just dump him. He thought he was gonna be special and he was gonna be the one to make you realize you are in fact monogamous and you only want to be in a relationship with him. That didn’t happen, he’s realizing it likely isn’t going to happen, so now it’s your fault for not following his plan. As a monogamous person, I can pretty confidently say that monogamous people don’t enter poly relationships unless they expect it to eventually become monogamous (aka they wanna feel like they “won”)

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Anonymous 5w

so he knew it was an undesirable situation for him but still went with it?

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Anonymous 5w

dump him lmao

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Anonymous 5w

If you’re monoämorous you legit shouldn’t date poly people, the only people I know who do that are incredibly desperate

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

You two are not compatible. Sorry to say but this relationship cannot continue like this. Regardless of whose fault it is (though he should not have knowingly entered a relationship with a poly person if he’s solely monogamous, I’m confused at the rationale there assuming he was fully informed of everything), if either partner is uncomfortable with the situation, dragging it out only makes its death more prolonged and painful.

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