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I have this friend who has always been monogamous, and has talked at length how being in a poly relationship would make her feel bad. She met this girl and now is in an open relationship and I have noticed my friend is crying a lot, is this normal?
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Anonymous 5w

It is normal for a monogamous person in an open relationship to feel hurt. It is not good

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Anonymous 5w

lol sounds like me a few years ago. sometimes we meet people we like so much we try to change ourselves. didn’t work for me!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

She is insisting that’s she’s poly now but she is sleeping or crying all the time. She often used to talk about how she wouldn’t feel valued as a woman in an open relationship since she is trans

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

Consider: If someone who said they were gay all their life suddenly got into a straight relationship at the insistence of the person they met, and the nature of that relationship leaves them crying every night, would you consider them to “definitely be straight now?”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

No I wouldn’t. I just want to respect her and figure out how to bring this up to her without sounding like I’m being polyphobic since I’m monogamous, I’m just so worried about her

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

She will also often talk about how she’s happy when she’s with the girl but not happy when she’s not with the girlfriend. The girlfriend has also matched me with me on tinder (doesn’t have in her bio or anything that she is poly and I learned she was the girlfriend after I had already matched with her)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

I’m just like I feel like the girlfriend is using the poly thing as a way to abuse my friend. I know my friend had monogamous (not poly ppl please) in her profile and my friend had a strict rule about not dating poly ppl before this

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