Hi Kevin, thanks for joining in. I think it comes with a world view or look on life.

I'll appreciate if you can elaborate on that. World view of?

Of seeingoncentrating on the values of your partners and accepting their own needs as they accept yours. Working the best out of a beginning attraction and keeping up care and attention. Building the relationships on these conscious mutual benefits which based on the fact that you have each other.
Well, hard to put it. I'm just thinking how it could work and on my demands but a beginner in the idea.

Sorry, many typos. Pity it cannot be modified...

Well, being sexually active with multiple partners (in the same time span) is something beyond my rationale! Wot I can think of is, LOVE is not possible along with the same! That is, if you consider love to be subtle and one of the finer emotions/feelings. Wot can happen is "love making".
The automated, digitalized and "modern world" comes up with smart terms and terminology! However, most of the time these make us more restless and ill at peace! I am not trying to be morally correct, I am just trying to put things straight! YES, we must endeavor to grow out of a hypocritical society; but not to replace it with another hypocritical order.

The above are solely my personal thoughts, and in no way directed to hurt anyone's personal feelings!

Well I don't inow. Surely it's a question of flexibility of mind and individual psychic history. Somehow I feel the very rationalitic side strong enough to justify its existance anyhow it may be called in today's fashionable terms.

I'm inclined to agree with that thinking.Since we're all different, I'd say at some point, somebody is going to get their nose out of joint with that arrangement.

Been there, done that, not going back there again.

I agree adding that I think everything is temporary in different measures. If deep love kicks in it will enjoy priority. To be open for a change should be natural.

Brothels were once common, nearly every little town had one. Now illegal in most places I feel there is still plenty of prostitution going on and I feel some of those who participate are often doing so with different people. There are also many who have affairs or just get around a lot. Its all how you want to play the game, what you can afford, what you can get away with. I do see how how morals and religion have done things to make people believe they have to live a certain way when things could be done differently as long as people could agree and set limits to what is or isn't acceptable. People are also very selfish and they want to be able to do as they please, but when somebody else does something it is not acceptable. I have had ex's that wanted nothing to do with me until I start dating somebody else, then they try to hook up or get back together as a jealous control thing. Most people have had at least a few sexual partners in their life, so why not have them at the same time as long as everybody is informed?

A new thought after your inspiring replies (thank you for them again):
I think the time people spend with their loved ones can be amongst the most important factors that makes them feel they are loved. The need for time must be different person to person but I think there exist a certain minimum or "psychological limit" that makes a relathionship work. In order to be able to divide your time you can make a schedule which at the same time can deprive evolving love of its natural (and by its nature highly imaginative) flowing. It seems to me that committed long-term poliamory only works between highly conscious and stable minds who are just as responsible for one person as for the others...
Conluding, I think it's quite a rarity to find more than one person like this at one time. More realistically, poliamoria may exist rather for shorter time-spans. For me, it is as if true love would be multiplicated...

I've been in several successful poly relationships for over 20 years. There is a lot of misinformation and bias displayed in most posts in this thread, no doubt out of ignorance and bias as relatively few people have actually experienced a poly relationship.

Hi Kevin! Several means (if not too intimate to tell) how many of the same people for the same years? I'm interested in the reality details.

Love triangles do not constitute polyamory.
Swinging does not constitute polyamory.
Polyamory is the practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships with more than one partner, with the informed consent of all partners involved.
Intimate includes sexual activities but is much more than that.
Informed consent includes extended families (children, parents and siblings). It implies open relationships.
If you hide your activities and partners from others around you, you are NOT practicing polyamory.

I am a very ordinary person! In my opinion a man can in no way love together equally! If anyone says that, he is cheating, and it is impossible for two of us to live in one heart! And if you divide the heart, it will be a broken heart. So the owner of our heart should be one, there is no love in a broken heart. Thank you

Would have been a perfect time to educate everyone and clear up all the "misinformation, ignorance, and bias".

what kind of of topics are you speaking of?

Humans

i seem to qualify ... now how do I sign up .... and where is this group located ???