BODY MIND SOUL: TRIPLE PLAY: John R. Ballew

in the Gay & Lesbian Times:

...When straight people have a relationship involving more than the customary two partners, they call it “polyamory.” We don’t use that term much as gay men, but we are at least as adventurous in trying out all the possible combinations and permutations of relationships. If two is good, then is three better?

Men choose relationships with multiple partners for many reasons. The novelty of having a third person around certainly can make things interesting. Three people can feel more like a family than being a couple feels for some men. Chores and responsibilities can get divided up with less work (sometimes) and there is usually more disposable income.

Relationships are complicated and plenty of work even when there are only two people in them. What’s it like when a third enters the calculations?

It’s unusual for three people to meet one another simultaneously and decide to form a potentially complex relationship. More often, two of the partners have been together a while when the third person enters the relationship.

more (Polyamory in the Media blog comments: "Gay and Straight, Parallel Poly Worlds")

Labels: gay/straight differences, polyamory

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