I ran across this word recently.. polyamourous -> to love many.

In the context of romantic love, I'm interested what people think. Please take the poll.

Do social mores squelch love? I think so. What do you think?

Well we've voted


I just love who I love. *shrugs*

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There you go with your big words again....

I think it's possible, and like Lilith, I love who I love.

You didn't tell us what you thought tho.

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This is a somewhat interesting poll... I was introduced to this word as a descriptor of a lifestyle about 6 months ago. I've thought long and hard about it... and I'm still not really sure of it all... I have an opinion of course, but it's only based on my experiences.

I can genuinely care about different people in separate ways in the same manner I can love each of my children for their own being.

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i dont think that i cud luv just one person , i only want to married to one but i do totally belive i can luv more than him in a romantic way. he may not be happy to hear that i can but he shud be happy to know its him i choose to be with till death do us part.

~nikki

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I don't believe that a person can be 'in love' with more than one person at a time.

By it's very nature, being 'in love' is a feeling of wanting to spend every waking moment with the object of your affection, not being able to think about anything else, counting the moments until you are with that person again.

All in all, being in love is a very time and effort consuming state of being, and I don't think it's possible to feel that for two people at exactly the same time. However, I do think it's possible to romantically love one person, and fall in love with another - dangerous emotional ground, though, of course.

And I'd argue that loving your partner, without being 'in love' with them can be pretty dangerous ground as well.

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I agree with PF. I think you can love many people in different ways ~ all of them unique and wonderful. But that feeling of being "in love head over heels" should be reserved for that one special person. There are several very special men in my life (and get your mind outta the gutter here!) who I love very much and would do anything for....

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

We would on this site make good hippies in that case. Except for one thing. Some of us don't have enough hair!

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I love alot of people, in alot of different ways. There's always room in my heart to love someone else... a new friend, another child...

But when it comes to truly being IN love, I am a one-man-woman. My little planet revolves around his sun, and that's the fact of it. I fall in love from the top of my head to the tip of my toes, and I can only give everything of myself to one at a time. Far too confusing for my literal mind to even consider otherwise.

However, I did vote that I think it's possible to be romantically involved with more than one man at a time. I just don't see it as being something that would work for me.

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I think that people's perspectives change over time as well as their capacities for certain things. Personally, there's no way that I could have romantically loved more than one person when I was younger. But then, I could have eaten a whole extra larger, double topping, everything on it pizza all by myself. Now days, I eat until I'm satisfied, which is a lot LESS than it used to be, and I love until I'm satisfied, which is a lot MORE than it used to be. Not that everyone's capacities change, or that they even should. But for some of us, they do, and we need to learn to love and accept that in ourselves. Bottom line, as long as you're happy, then it's all good, and nobody should be judgemental because we're all different. And anyway...you know what they used to say in the good ol' days...The plural for spouse, is spice!

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