Hello.

[CDarklock]

I'm new here.

I've been in an open marriage for the last six years, but the polyamory part of it was always just a theoretical concept. The idea that either of us would meet someone who appealed enough to the other that adding them to the family was actually a real possibility? What are the chances?

Well, pretty darn good, it turns out. For the first time in over a dozen years, I've met someone that I deeply love and want with me forever. It's mutual. My wife likes her. She likes my wife. Their relationship is still new, still developing, but they're comfortable enough with one another to see a triad as the next logical step.

I'm overjoyed. I'm elated. I'm scared witless. It would be a good idea, I reasoned, to connect with a community that doesn't focus immediately on the complete lunacy of this idea and tell me with ever-growing insistence that it can never work.

I think it can work. I just don't think it will be easy. And I don't think I can do it in a vacuum.

Thanks for being here.

[River]

Welcome aboard!

Maybe it will and maybe it won't be easy. Try to let it be easy if it wants to be, but let it be difficult if it must. Just be carefull not to make it difficult by expecting it to be, that's all.

I prefer easy, but if something I want must be difficult, well, there you go. I let it be as difficult as it is.