Love Affairs

I was hoping for more about kids and about people with differing sexualities... but it will definitely do! Great start..... thanks for doing it justice!

There are several forums on polyamory, but this is a link to a great discussion

www.polyamory.com/.../index.php

I overlooked the comment about cheating at the beginning, and I can't let this one go without comment.

Cheating is breaking an agreement.  By definition, polyamory is not cheating.  Polyamory requires the fully informed consent and acceptance of all involved.  

Cheating is still possible within polyamorous relationships, when anyone breaks an agreement.  

This is not the same thing as the Free Love movement of the '60s, although I'd be willing to bet some people explored both Free Love and Polyamory.  

Polyamory crosses income levels, political affiliations, religious beliefs, and age brackets.  The people spotlighted in this video are more or less middle-class families with mortgages, children, college educations, and regular jobs, just like "everyone else".  That's a far cry from the image of the teenage and twenty-something hippies with no job, no house, trucking around the country in a hand-painted van, protesting the war by sticking flowers in gun barrels.

Polyamorous people are responsible, contributing members of society.  They look like everyone else.  They are your neighbors, your siblings, your teachers, your soldiers, your check-out clerks, your doctors.  You probably even know some polyamorous people, and think they're just fine and dandy people, only you don't know they're polyamorous because they don't want to tell you for fear of the reaction you just showed us here.

In order for a polyamorous family to work, the participants must be considerate, caring, ethical, compassionate, and responsible people.  Without these traits, the family does not survive.  These same traits result in a lack of cheating, not only on their partners, but on their taxes, in their business dealings, and, in general, make for people who respect fairness in every aspect of their lives.

Personally, I'd rather interact with a person like that as a neighbor or co-worker than someone who views his partner as his property and requires exclusivity as "proof" of love, or someone willing to break an agreement for the sake of acting on their "urges".