I'm not going to get into a flame war with a teenager on someone else's LJ. You clearly have strong feelings about polyamory, which is fine; you're free to define love however you like. You can say, for you, true love requires monogamy, or gifts of shortbread on Arbor Day, or whatever you like.
I will say this: poly people (including the person whose journal you're posting in) certainly believe they are (or can be) in love with multiple people at once. They form long-term relationships with one another, some lasting longer than you've been alive, and they're pretty indistinguishable from long-term monogamous relationships. They argue, they make up, they miss each other, they poke each other's noses, they buy houses together. Most importantly, they say they're in love with each other, and I think they're the ones who get to decide that, not me and not you.
There are a lot of people in this world who think homosexual couples aren't really in love with each other. They say it's just misguided lust, that it's unnatural, that proper romantic love can only work between a man and a woman. Those people piss me off to no end, and I suspect they piss you off as well.
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ninetydegrees
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on 2009-01-23 04:01 am (UTC)I will say this: poly people (including the person whose journal you're posting in) certainly believe they are (or can be) in love with multiple people at once. They form long-term relationships with one another, some lasting longer than you've been alive, and they're pretty indistinguishable from long-term monogamous relationships. They argue, they make up, they miss each other, they poke each other's noses, they buy houses together. Most importantly, they say they're in love with each other, and I think they're the ones who get to decide that, not me and not you.
There are a lot of people in this world who think homosexual couples aren't really in love with each other. They say it's just misguided lust, that it's unnatural, that proper romantic love can only work between a man and a woman. Those people piss me off to no end, and I suspect they piss you off as well.
Just sayin'.