Poly Myth #4
Mar. 27th, 2017 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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polyamouruspride:
Myth #4: Polyamory is for people who don’t get jealous.
People in polyamorous relationships do experience jealousy, sometimes quite often – but instead of avoiding feelings of jealousy, poly folks (just like all people in healthy relationships!) are pushed to confront jealousy head on.
It’s important to recognize that it’s okay to feel jealousy! There’s nothing shameful about it. It’s just a feeling.
What is important is what you do with that feeling, and how you come to understand and deal with it.
There are strategies to survive and even work to unlearn jealousy. These can often be applied to other areas in our lives.
In this way, confronting our feelings of jealousy can serve to make us stronger people, strengthening our foundation, our internal security, and our relationships, too.
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polyamouruspride:
Myth #4: Polyamory is for people who don’t get jealous.
People in polyamorous relationships do experience jealousy, sometimes quite often – but instead of avoiding feelings of jealousy, poly folks (just like all people in healthy relationships!) are pushed to confront jealousy head on.
It’s important to recognize that it’s okay to feel jealousy! There’s nothing shameful about it. It’s just a feeling.
What is important is what you do with that feeling, and how you come to understand and deal with it.
There are strategies to survive and even work to unlearn jealousy. These can often be applied to other areas in our lives.
In this way, confronting our feelings of jealousy can serve to make us stronger people, strengthening our foundation, our internal security, and our relationships, too.
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