The Ninth One.
Morning, Today's Heading: On Breakups When Polyamorous. Very fortunate to have partners like this. My husband Alex and I opened our marriage in March, and over the course of these nine months, I've already experienced multiple separations from partners ranging from "Meh." to "Excuse me while I sob in the car." I'm currently working through one now, and it got me thinking about how different this experience is, and how ill equipped I feel to handle it. There is no road map for how to handle breakups in general, but when you add in the complexities of multiple partners, this has been a whole new realm of, "I have no idea what the hell I am supposed to do right now." As per usual, when I am trying to understand how I feel, I turn to writing. I hope to come at this from a few angles, simply because there is more at play (at least, for me) than when going through a breakup when I was monogamous. More than anything, I'm hoping to...