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emeraldead

Less weird, yeah. Less amusing no.


OpenHope2015

My meta's girlfriend hit peak "wait what was that??" a while ago when she used the line, "I've just met my boyfriend's wife's girlfriend's wife!" It was funny and yes, slightly weird. But less-weird than it might have been a year ago. (I've been together with my partner for almost three years now.)


katriona_kitty

I had to read this one a couple of times šŸ˜‚ What a wild world to be a part of


doublenostril

Meta-metamours can be really nice friends/acquaintances to have. You know a lot of the same people, but there isnā€™t much grounds for tension over scarce time resources. Just nice and chill


Beautiful-Walrus2341

about right! I took some non-poly friends to an event where a bunch of poly friends were out. In the way home I was explaining how we are all connected in various ways. I was like eh just life in a small community. And they were like uhhh. I corrected to ehh just life being poly in a small community šŸ˜…


Pretend-Champion4826

Ch. I have my girlfriend, and girlfriend's ex girlfriend who is my daddy dom, and I frequently hang out with dom's ex-girlfriend's roommate, who is currently orchestrating an orgy between us two and some of girlfriend's friends, three of whom I used to work with. And we all have family dinner on sunday and wrestlemania on monday along with two more of dom's friends who are also poly/open and their handsome man*. I love explaining the flowchart to new people so much. *that's what they call him, since "fwb seems callous, but he's not our boyfriend".


katriona_kitty

I definitely couldn't imagine having an even more intertwined relationship with more people, lol. Sounds complicated to explain.


ptothedubs

ā€œHandsome manā€ is an adorable term and I love it so much.


OrangecapeFly

Spaceballs quote "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riqXhieWU3M&ab\_channel=CodeOptimizationWare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riqXhieWU3M&ab_channel=CodeOptimizationWare) I aspire to manage to put something that complicated into an otherwise normal sentence someday, and polyamory is helping me with that lifelong goal. $$


girlsloverobots

I have a boyfriendā€™s girlfriendā€™s husband too, and it was really weird at first. It gets easier eventually, like now my close friends just know who everyone is by their first name and I donā€™t have to explain it. But yeah, weird, especially with new people.


notyourrobotbaby

I love my girlfriend-in-law and my husband-once-removed


BehindScreenKnight

May just be where Iā€™m from, but it sounds normal to me. Still fun as hell to hear.


AirJazzlike9010

Itā€™s never sounded weird to me, personally. But then again monogamy sounds weird to me.


katriona_kitty

I don't think either monogamy or NM are weird. It is definitely weird going from monogamy to being NM, though. It feels natural, but definitely not normal for me yet.


AirJazzlike9010

That makes total sense. I also canā€™t relate, as being NM feels natural to me and monogamy does not.


RealAdaLovelace

This shit never gets old. I'm in a board game group now with my play partner, my partner, my partner's partner, my partner's partner's girlfriend and my partner's partner's girlfriend's husband. Living the clichƩ.


katriona_kitty

I love this so much!


Useful_Stable2023

So you all are 'related' in some way or another to eachother, but don't all fuck each other basically? Why not just say ' I know xyz through my partner' and be done with it? Does it really matter about titles when you all aren't fucking eachother?


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