Most people, tend to agree that living authentically matters, but the trouble with living authentically, is that it’s hard. It’s really hard.
They don’t teach how to live authentically when you’re anyone but the family behind the white picket fence. When you’re that family, the one behind the white picket fence with 2.5 kids, a dog, and a standard two parent household. Living authentically for those families( god bless them!) is easy, well comparatively, I’m sure they have their gripes too. Actually, I know they do.
But for me, not so cut and dry.
I can’t introduce my family to my partners without a serious conversation that I don’t want to have. If they meet Partner A, and know we’re dating, then at some point in the future they might meet Partner B – my family will ask “What happened to partner A? When did you break up?” Being honest means coming out, and being dishonest, while it’s in some ways the easier option, it’s an absolute disservice to my relationship with Partner A. We didn’t break up. He still loves me, and I still love him, but I also love Partner B. I don’t know how to live authentically, well that’s a lie. I know what it would take. But I don’t know if I can do what it’d take, or if it’d be worth the trouble.
My family is amazing and they’d love me no matter what, but do I want to have the conversation about my dating preferences with my family? Would it be worth it?
I wouldn’t change my polyness for anything. I love dating and living like this. I love how it fits me and to be honest, I couldn’t imagine doing it any other way and most of the time, I wouldn’t change a thing. But this, is a circumstance in which I would change it.
Kink and Other things 