Central Arkansas Couple

CathexesInc

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Greetings.

Time has slow-motion enforced a diaspora upon those I am closest to, and I find myself somewhat lonely these days.

I am a stay at home father of two daughters, one five, one two. My wife is a therapist. We have been together over twelve years. We are a bisexual, poly couple, but haven't been sexual with a third for about a decade.

Looking for friends and/or lovers, or like-minded parents even for playdates w/ the kids. I don't find many in this state I choose to spend my time with or expose to my children. My wife and I are 33 years old. We do unfortunately have genital herpes, just to get that out there right off. Neither have had a symptom or outbreak in many years, 7+.

We are gamers (particularly interested in tabletop D&D), intelligent, graduate-school educated. I'm passionate about history, politics, international relations, writing, and science (particularly astrophysics). She is passionate about mental health and crafts. We're sort of the geek/nerd type but break most of the stereotypes for gaming geeks. We are both agnostics who lean atheist.

Sexually I am extremely versatile with a wide, deep skill set. She tends to be submissive and is into bondage.

Body type, gender are of little to no consequence to us sexually, though for myself I do tend to prefer feminine/sub types regardless of gender. Transgender is fine with us as well. I'm more experienced in homosexual endeavors than my wife is, but have still only had a few. I suppose it's fair to say we are really picky about our friends and picky damn near to the point of monogamy about our lovers.

Well met and cheers.
 
A few notes to help your ad, from the perspective of a unicorn

We have been together over twelve years.

I do not care how long you've been together. In fact, it is likely to put me off (We've been together longer than you and he have! Hah.) Just tell me you have a stable, but open relationship that has the flexibility to grow into anything I desire with you, her, or both of you.

We are a bisexual, poly couple, but haven't been sexual with a third for about a decade.

Most unicorns, if you want someone exclusive to you, do not want to be someone's "third." They want to be one of three people in a relationship; not the extra add-on.

I suppose it's fair to say we are really picky about our friends and picky damn near to the point of monogamy about our lovers.

Those kinds of statements just make you sound like a pretentious ass. It's unnecessary, people expect you to select them because they're special, and makes it sound like you think you're better than other people because YOU choose people selectively and OTHER people just take whoever.

The rest is good.
 
A few notes to help your ad, from the perspective of a unicorn



I do not care how long you've been together. In fact, it is likely to put me off (We've been together longer than you and he have! Hah.) Just tell me you have a stable, but open relationship that has the flexibility to grow into anything I desire with you, her, or both of you.



Most unicorns, if you want someone exclusive to you, do not want to be someone's "third." They want to be one of three people in a relationship; not the extra add-on.





Those kinds of statements just make you sound like a pretentious ass. It's unnecessary, people expect you to select them because they're special, and makes it sound like you think you're better than other people because YOU choose people selectively and OTHER people just take whoever.

The rest is good.


I have no reason to hide that my wife and I have been together a long time, and we always will be, and we have children together. I'm not here to game my way into sex with anyone. I'm also not just here to look for more lovers. Last, as far as lovers are concerned, we're just as open to the idea of other couples as thirds.

I can see where the picky statements from me could be construed as some type of pretentiousness. It's simply from the facts that we are so different in our worldviews (religion, politics, and so on) than nearly everyone else in this state, coupled with the fact that we have genital herpes. Those make it difficult to engage in anything poly if we have a mind to avoid drama, and we do.

I would add that your response could also be easily construed as being pretentious, and indeed to me it seemed that way, as you fired back with hard and fast judgements of my post and even me personally, instead of asking questions to get to the bottom of who we are if you had a concern. Instead of some kind of damning critique of my post, you could have simply welcomed me to the community or said nothing.

Regardless, cheers.
 
Greetings CathexesInc,
Welcome to our forum. Please feel free to lurk, browse, etc.

Sorry your initial experience with Polyamory.com was rather challenging. "Unicorn Hunting" as it's called is a hot-button topic and likely to flare up for any number of possible reasons. Give it some time and some of the more positive posts will come up.

I see your ad was bumped over to the Dating & Friendships subforum; this is a good place for it. Also I can recommend various links and ideas for finding people to date if that's something you would find helpful.

I will be following this thread so if you ever want to ping me with a thought, question, or concern, post away and I'll make a point to respond. A wide range of people are likely to respond to you on most any thread, though; it's quite a bustling site.

I hope you find a partner or couple that is suitable for you.
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Kevin T., "official greeter" :)

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I normally don't post in here, but since this thread was already sort of ruined by Polyinpractice - I'll say that critique of personal ads should be forbidden on this site. Aside from a violation of the TOS, how a person expresses what they want in a partner is their own personal choice and should be left alone. As the vast majority of personal ads in here are in pursuit of single females and rather terse, there's so much room for negativity it's just a waste of time to allow it.

In this case, the OP never mentioned wanting a unicorn, and was criticized for not appealing to unicorns. How ironic.

Would recommend to the OP that they repost this exact personal again in a new thread (I thought it was concise and informative) and let the moderators delete this one.
 
I don't really consider this thread ruined. Honestly Polyinpractice had a valid point about my word use on picky and how it could be interpreted unfavorably, I just don't think it was a very efficacious way of providing any sort of constructive criticism. Water off a duck, at least from where I sit. No big deal.

When I wrote the OP I did so in the Introduction forum, as it was just me stating what I thought was important information about us as a couple. I did not write it as some type of "calling potential lovers" ad, but as a general introduction to the community.

Monkeystyle, appreciate your support. Cheers.
 
I would say the paragraphs that start with 'Looking' 'Sexually' and 'body type' fall into the personals parameter, probably why it was moved over here.

Good luck!!
 
I realize this is a bit off topic, and since the post is so old, I'm not even sure if you'll even get this, but I'm curious about whether your wife is a poly-friendly therapist and is taking clients. I'm in grad school myself right now to become a therapist and my husband and I live in Central Arkansas as well.

Basically husband and I had a fight the other night over our mutual friend who I'm also attracted to. He's more or less been our third for about as long as I've known my husband. But, as you know, poly isn't very well known or understood in Arkansas. My husband doesn't accept it and I didn't even know what it was until after we got married. So yeah, the guy is just a friend to my husband and he's kept at a distance, but the three of us spend time together alone quite often.

Anyway the distance imposed on me by my husband gets me down sometimes. I was at the point where I accepted that I needed to move on emotionally from the other guy, so of course I was tearful. I tried my very hardest to hide it from my husband because it just pisses him off, but he just kept at me on and on "what's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong", so finally I broke down and told him. And of course he got pissed off and turned it into this huge thing. So now he wants counseling, which is fine, but if we get it, I want a poly-friendly therapist so that she/he will actually understand where I'm coming from and give me a fair shot at all of us being happy. I don't want to let go anymore after hearing everything my husband had to say about us. This is probably my last shot at poly. I just love them both and when one asks me to shut myself down from the other, it's like half of me dies inside.

If she's not open to clients, you guys still seem pretty cool. Slightly older than the three of us but not by too many years. We have similar interests it seems, nerdy types who like tabletop gaming. I know therapists can't counsel friends, so it would have to be either/or, but I feel like it would be really nice to get to know some real life poly people in my area. I wasn't sure there were any even in Arkansas. And one day, no matter how this turns out, I'd like to specialize in polyamory when I become a therapist myself. I just don't know if any potential clients would take me seriously without having any personal poly experience. I'd like it to still be a part of me in some way though.
 
@ TwinEnergy

I got a notification about your post, so apparently I'm still kosher w/ this site, despite not coming back since my last reply in this thread.

My wife has a new management job and no longer sees clients directly.

I'll see about maybe a direct message to you to provide an email address for better correspondence.
 
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