When I put Polyamorous on my dating profile:
What people read: 🍆💦🍑🥵🚕👋
What I mean: 💒💏💏🚚🏘️
I’ve been re-inspired by some immigrant coworkers to affirm something I already suspected: having bigger households with multiple working people in them makes surviving and saving way easier ($3 million Retirement Thread looms menacingly). I wanna grill through the apocalypse with my 2-5 partners cause my actual family ain’t shit. And I’m genuinely tired of people just being uninvested in relationships in general. It feels like most of them are really inwardly focused and only really care about what they’re doing or their own aesthetic preferences.
I mean, you can have roommates that you don’t fuck.
I’ve got a number of friends who routinely joke-but-kinda-seriously about fucking off and starting a commune together. We’re all in committed relationships and only get to hang out periodically on the weekends. Would be nice to just be in, like, a single big house or even just a village together. Somewhere that we don’t have to drive 15 miles to see one another.
I don’t think I’ve seen a roommate situation last more than a couple years. Doesn’t seem to be enough of a relationship to overcome the “fuck you, me first” mentality I see in a lot of people where they just kinda…move on when things don’t serve them anymore.
I’ve also thought about the commune thing, but the general consensus I’ve heard from former commune people is “DON’T”. A normal house in a normal neighborhood sounds fine, tbh. Also, I just kinda like being in love as a general…human thing. Poly love just always made more sense to me than monogamy. I just use the financials to justify it to myself intellectually.
Of course lmao.
Like why would people be booking up with randoms when there’s COVID and Monkeypox around. This isn’t even getting into other STDs and STIs, how many people still don’t like using condoms, etc.
Also younger people haven’t fallen for the bs that claims hooking up and having tonnes of sexual partners is somehow inherently more liberating than more long term relationships. Liberation is choosing what you want and being able to carry it out.
Volcel zoomers :volcel-judge:
