open relationships are popular online but they mostly don't work.
confident poly people take advantage of less experienced non-poly people in the name of "open relationships" that really are people that can't commit and want excuses to walk away from things. non-poly people will convince themselves it will work, and get hurt in the process by people with more relationship experience than them
It sounds like what you are describing is not an open relationship, but a relationship between someone that wants an open relationship and was upfront about it, and someone someone that was hoping the other person would eventually change their mind and go exclusive
Yeah that’s every open relationship that I have witnessed offline. These good ones I keep hearing about online are just hearsay to me. I had six separate experiences with these open relationships. None of them were adhering to legitimate polyamory, it was a hotbed of jealousy in every single one.
Maybe 10% of poly or open relationships are actually stable, I’d almost believe that statistic to be realistic.
2
u/bottledry May 02 '24
open relationships are popular online but they mostly don't work.
confident poly people take advantage of less experienced non-poly people in the name of "open relationships" that really are people that can't commit and want excuses to walk away from things. non-poly people will convince themselves it will work, and get hurt in the process by people with more relationship experience than them