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Stealth Mod
There often seems to be a tendency for people new to poly—and sometimes old-timers as well—to see a particular relationship shape as The One True Way To Be Poly™. This then leads to communication problems when they assume that everyone else uses the same definitions that they do.
There are others, usually newcomers, who wonder if they're really poly because they don't exactly fit the One True Poly™ model they first stumbled across and who wonder what they should call themselves instead.
In order to demonstrate the great variety that's out there (and the fact that I'm easily amused on a Saturday morning) I've drawn up a few of the more commonly referred-to configurations I've come across.
V (or Vee):
Triad:
Quad:
Another type of Quad:
N:
W:
Example of a Tangle:
Feel free to add more. Perhaps when there are more examples people will stop judging everyone else on how closely they conform to their own personal idea of what One True Poly™ looks like.
There are others, usually newcomers, who wonder if they're really poly because they don't exactly fit the One True Poly™ model they first stumbled across and who wonder what they should call themselves instead.
In order to demonstrate the great variety that's out there (and the fact that I'm easily amused on a Saturday morning) I've drawn up a few of the more commonly referred-to configurations I've come across.
V (or Vee):
Triad:
Quad:
Another type of Quad:
N:
W:
Example of a Tangle:
Feel free to add more. Perhaps when there are more examples people will stop judging everyone else on how closely they conform to their own personal idea of what One True Poly™ looks like.
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