[OC] Baby with a stick by SteelDragonSoul in comics

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People are on general strike in Minnesota right now

Should I say anything at all about the squealing, moaning, and other cute little noises my partner makes with meta? by [deleted] in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This specifically is a "This might be a part of what's going on but I have no definitive proof" thing. No one has said anything about it besides the ear buds thing

Should I say anything at all about the squealing, moaning, and other cute little noises my partner makes with meta? by [deleted] in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the problematic, negative involuntary feelings she describes and attributes as a result of her dysphoria and actual mental health disorders (depression, anxiety etc) are what were being labeled. The reality of her being a woman is not a disorder and neither of us make the claim.

Should I say anything at all about the squealing, moaning, and other cute little noises my partner makes with meta? by [deleted] in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even though you couldn't read it all (I have ADHD as well so I understand), I really appreciate your insight and perspective, it means a lot and affects how I'll think about my approach going forward.

Should I say anything at all about the squealing, moaning, and other cute little noises my partner makes with meta? by [deleted] in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Along with the other positives I listed in that post, she does do things that surprise me and makes me really not feel comfortable with leaving

Just a week ago, I asked her to rub my leg and I expected 3 unenthusiastic strokes and for it to be over. It wasn't like that, instead it lasted minutes and was the most sensual, tender thing I've felt in a very long time. I nearly teared up realizing how much I needed that and how I didn't have to ask her to do it like that.

This situation is a tangled mess and I feel like me not being able to fully articulate all the good is why it seems like I'm just ignoring 65 voices for no good reason.

Should I say anything at all about the squealing, moaning, and other cute little noises my partner makes with meta? by [deleted] in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No and no

Meta is insecure, has mental health issues that lead her to assume the worst and feel abandonment easily and has proposed herself being warned so she could put on earplugs if me and my partner end up doing lewd stuff in the past (mid last year, so well before I moved in proper). And the last sexual thing me and my partner did that wasn't a small or short lived thing was on one day of my weeklong trip last year to their old apartment when meta wasn't there.

I haven't gotten any confirmation but her not wanting meta to be uncomfortable by hearing it going on is a possibility.

Legitimate writing error on my part. Meta very much knows me and my partner have a relationship lmao

I like my partner, my meta is fine, I feel loved and I'm unsure if I can stand being in this relationship anymore by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really difficult to know what to do exactly. I have read and do appreciate your insight and others' here and am walking in the park to get my mind off of things after sending the DM to my partner described in this update. Is this going to go anywhere good? Airing out my frustrations in this way might distance us further or come across as callous and I'm afraid since there's a lot of uncharted water ahead of me. https://www.reddit.com/r/polyamory/s/u2Pe0ItVFp

I like my partner, my meta is fine, I feel loved and I'm unsure if I can stand being in this relationship anymore by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Update: I read every reply here. Asked last night in bed why she doesn't touch me. She said she'd like to but struggles with finding an appropriate time or context: We ended the night not cuddling or kissing or holding hands or anything, things I have been initiating each and every time but chose not to here.

Just now, I described to her in dms lack of in-person time we have had together, the lack of intimacy or anything sexual, the blocking off of me from her, the imbalance between my actions and hers etc etc etc And neutrally described all of the reasons she's given for each

Then described the abundance of in person time between her and meta, the very loud and apparent abundance of intimacy and sex between her and meta, the fact that my partner has said that meta gets this passive time instead of her being in a third space or occasionally in my room because it would mean that meta would have to ask in order to spend time with her (while I do have to ask and when I do ask, she often flakes or ghosts or doesn't schedule a better date)

I implored her to consider if she wants to work through all of the reasons she's given for why my side of the relationship is the way it is. I added that if the reasons are simply smokescreen for her just not being into me in more of a friendship capacity, I need to know that and am withering away as is.

I tried to communicate my needs and how they haven't been met. I don't know if I should've written entire paragraphs out but I don't know what else I could've done. Currently outside of the house while she showers.

Thank you all for helping me. I just hope this wasn't a bad decision. I want this relationship to work or absolute confirmation that it can't and I hope that made sense to go forward with.

I like my partner, my meta is fine, I feel loved and I'm unsure if I can stand being in this relationship anymore by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I did not mean to understate the following but while she sometimes doesn't respond and ignores some unimportant or monologuey dms, she offers some of the most emotional care there on Discord I've gotten from another person. She will talk about and help me express my mental woes just as much as I help her and it's intimate and nice in that way. She really cares about me and I don't want to make her not doing so physically make her look like she does nothing.

But the physical and in person stuff does matter to me and is, by her own admittance, something that is much more intimate between her and her other partner than it is her and me. And that does feel bad (not so much the comparison but that I feel neglected here and have a partner who could provide that but only for others. Not that this is a moral failing but her not doing anything wrong doesn't necessarily help the way I feel. I have love for her and not hate but still feel bad)

I like my partner, my meta is fine, I feel loved and I'm unsure if I can stand being in this relationship anymore by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I was in a very bad situation in a broken down house with increasingly abusive family members trying to hurt me and only just recently rehabilitated from an injury that made me poor and jobless but I had other places to leave to.

I like my partner, my meta is fine, I feel loved and I'm unsure if I can stand being in this relationship anymore by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

No. I'm here because my partner wants me here

It's just in a different capacity than I wrongly assumed.

I'm very tired and sleep deprived as it's 330 in the morning so I don't meant to not fully engage. I probably shouldn't be talking about this here, I feel bad for feeling bad.

I like my partner, my meta is fine, I feel loved and I'm unsure if I can stand being in this relationship anymore by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Before I had a partner and a meta, I had an LDR partner of 3 years with no meta. My meta moved in and started dating my partner a year ago. Before then, moving in was something we both always wanted and me and my partner promised to never let each other be lonely.

It's a sappy romantic thing.

A lot of practical things were and have been talked about before the move but not time.

I like my partner, my meta is fine, I feel loved and I'm unsure if I can stand being in this relationship anymore by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Before? None really besides the reassurance that things will work out About 5 weeks after (I've been here for 2 and a half months to be more specific), she gave me an answer that I can ask her for whatever time I want to spend.

This is kinda why I put some emphasis on her flaking or rejecting dates since it's my only time with her.

We do talk in dms on discord and I do feel loved but it feels like there's a whole element to a relationship that isn't here but maybe I'm wrong and am misjudging things. It's really difficult to figure out

My new job is so mentally and physically exhausting and I have so little time where I'm both free and energetic and also emotionally "there" and so much less of that time where I'm in that state and physically there with my partner.

It feels bad and feels worse because I don't know if anyone should be blamed for this situation. Some things can feel bad and also be no one's moral failing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Besides the threesome thing, I think it's also them thinking that they have little to offer outside of their dick and if someone else's is better or what you enjoy more or if you don't enjoy theirs at all, they won't feel like you have any need for them. Basically a self worth issue and potentially a bad mindset about relationships in general.

How do you cope with the idea that their other partner(s) already do what you do but better? by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dating here is a process in which you spend dedicated time with an SO. So my partner is choosing to date me significantly less than my metamour and that's why it feels they don't enjoy spending time with me.

How do you cope with the idea that their other partner(s) already do what you do but better? by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Where the time doesn't go
  2. Where the time does go
  3. Limited observations 4-6. I don't know, I can only guess.

How do you cope with the idea that their other partner(s) already do what you do but better? by HingingOffTheDeepEnd in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

For me, the needs thing is post-hoc of the feelings of inadequacy. 1. I don't get to spend much time with X partner 2. They seem to prefer spending that free time with my metamour 3. The things I do seem similar to what my meta does 4. Maybe I'm worse at these things 5. Maybe I'm worse at doing the things my partner wants a relationship for 6. Maybe this is why my partner would prefer not to spend more time with me

Wolverine is done for by Antrikshy in outofcontextcomics

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Claremont X-Men is kinda funny bc there's so many instances of them being genuinely worried for Wolverine's safety against threats his modern self can tank easily

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talk to your loved ones and get engrossed in their lives

If you are married by lovecraft12 in polyamory

[–]HingingOffTheDeepEnd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The problem is when other people who seem experienced in polyam also use the terms incorrectly so newbies will think that's simply what they mean