Gay Marriage Made Waves, What About A Poly One?

I remember the first time I found out gay people existed.

I was 6 or 7. I didn't know much about them, except that I had an aunt who was gay and lived with her girlfriend.

My mother told me how they couldn't get married because it was illegal. Mom was an old-fashioned lady though, and was appalled that they even wanted to get married. In her words, "How would that even work anyway? They're both WOMEN?!" 😂

Being gay was scandalous back then. And gay marriage was illegal as well. (It's still illegal in many places, unfortunately.)

Anyway, gay marriages are quite normal now. People are proud to be gay, bisexual, queer, pan, etc., and have no problem telling others. I'm queer and I love it, and my parents don't care now.

But...

They don't know I'm 'poly.'

I'm pretty sure they would NOT like that. They wouldn't understand.

Because poly is now the new scandalous thing to be.

𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. ⁣⁣⁣

"What? You have intimate relationships with multiple people?"

Yes. Yes, I do.
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⁣A lot of people in poly relationships get a lot of shit for being “greedy” or “not knowing what we want”, or “cheating”, or are accused of “banging anything that walks” but those are rarely true, and certainly not in my case.
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⁣If people bothered to do their research, they'd find that most poly people are in committed, loyal, loving relationships.
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⁣There’s nothing wrong with loving more than one person.

We were made to love lots of people. I have 3 kids and I don’t love one more than the others (ok I might lean towards one a little more cuz she helps out, isn't rude, and is such a joy lol… but the love is equal!!!)

𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.⁣⁣

So my question is: If gay marriage has finally been accepted and is fairly common now, how long do you think it will take for poly marriages to become accepted and common too?

Do you think it's the next new thing to become normalized, like I do?

~Love, Cyn

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