effulgentunicorn
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I’m looking for someone or multiple someones to throw some possible terminology at me. I’ve looked through several glossary pages and it’s kind of overwhelming.
There are four of us. We have thrown around the word family to describe our group, especially in reference to the cats and the lizard, i.e. we’re all one family and all four of us are the animals’ parents. This has been our setup for approximately a year. Officially, the four of us are two couples, but recently myself and one of the members of the other couple have begun exploring what sort of possible relationship could develop between us, with the knowledge and approval of both of our partners, of course.
What introductory knowledge I had of definitions relating to polyamory had me looking up N relationships, which lead me to cross-couple relationships, which also lead me to looking at quad relationships. I guess my major question is about the nature of relationships that “”””””count”””””” in the different terms for those or other types of polyamorous relationships.
The new relationship between myself and a member of the other couple is currently, and for a while is planned to stay, romantically coded and stay clear of most sexually coded activity. Our partners don’t have any interest in each other in a romantic or sexual way, and it is overall unlikely that any more romantic or sexual relationships would develop among us, but there’s still the important quasi-familial feeling among all four of us. There are like three different kinds of relationships going on here (sexual between current established partners, what would appear romantic with this new relationship, and important/familial with all four of us) and I just don’t know if the fact that they aren’t all romantic&sexual relationships would at all affect which terms could apply.
We haven’t really labeled anything new yet, and I’m not trying to find a box and try to make us fit, I’m mostly just curious and overwhelmed by the number of new words. How would anyone who has a bit more experience with polyamorous terminology refer to this?
There are four of us. We have thrown around the word family to describe our group, especially in reference to the cats and the lizard, i.e. we’re all one family and all four of us are the animals’ parents. This has been our setup for approximately a year. Officially, the four of us are two couples, but recently myself and one of the members of the other couple have begun exploring what sort of possible relationship could develop between us, with the knowledge and approval of both of our partners, of course.
What introductory knowledge I had of definitions relating to polyamory had me looking up N relationships, which lead me to cross-couple relationships, which also lead me to looking at quad relationships. I guess my major question is about the nature of relationships that “”””””count”””””” in the different terms for those or other types of polyamorous relationships.
The new relationship between myself and a member of the other couple is currently, and for a while is planned to stay, romantically coded and stay clear of most sexually coded activity. Our partners don’t have any interest in each other in a romantic or sexual way, and it is overall unlikely that any more romantic or sexual relationships would develop among us, but there’s still the important quasi-familial feeling among all four of us. There are like three different kinds of relationships going on here (sexual between current established partners, what would appear romantic with this new relationship, and important/familial with all four of us) and I just don’t know if the fact that they aren’t all romantic&sexual relationships would at all affect which terms could apply.
We haven’t really labeled anything new yet, and I’m not trying to find a box and try to make us fit, I’m mostly just curious and overwhelmed by the number of new words. How would anyone who has a bit more experience with polyamorous terminology refer to this?