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[highlyeccentric]

I want to live in a world where there isn’t a hierarchy of relationships, where romantic love isn’t assumed to be more important than other kinds, where folks can center any relationships they want whether it be their relationship to their spiritual practice, kids, lovers, friends, etc. and not have some notion that it’s more or less important because of who or what’s in focus. I want to feel like I can develop intimacy with people whether we are sleeping together or not that I will be cared for whether I am romantically involved with someone or not. I want a community that takes interdependency seriously that doesn’t assume that it’s only a familial or romantic relationship responsibility to be there for each other.

Living 'single' at Crunk Feminist Collective

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[liv]

This made me smile, because I made a post quoting that exact passage a while back. This so precisely describes what I want, how I want the world to be.

[highlyeccentric]

Yesss... when I end up trying to explain my open relationships thing to people I get so muddled, because it is *so far from true* that I started living poly because I wanted to have more than one boy/girlfriend at a time, nor because I wished to have a lot of casual sex. I was looking for a way of articulating how I already thought about all *kinds* of relationships.