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What are your impressions on polyamory?
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Interviews By Savanah Walser & Janese Maricelli
SAM & BELLA (A COUPLE) S: “So broad.” B: “That’s such a broad question.” S: “I think just, do what you want, it’s not for me. I would be too jealous.” B: “I would get jealous too, but I respect if you can do it. If you’re able to, I get the point.” S: “It takes a lot of maturity.” B: “People say it’s very unrealistic to be with one person for many years, that’s just not really human nature, and it makes sense, I feel like it would work for some people.” S: “Yeah, I think it takes a lot of maturity to do that, you have to be able to be...” B: “You gotta be open to communication and you have to make sure each partner you have is ok with the fact that there’s other partners.” S: “Yeah, that’s true.” B: “You also have to be safe about sexual things too probably, I don’t know. Not for me because I’d get jealous.” S: “It also sounds stressful, it seems stressful too to juggle so many relationships.” B: “Well, a lot of people who are polyamorous have a main partner relationship and then they basically have side chicks, I’ve seen that. It’s cool but, no.” S: “Not for us, but I respect it.”
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