Why is polyamory so hated in the US?
So what? multiple wonderful people loving each other. Multiple committed partners. It is just more love and joy to share 🤷
26-30, F
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ViciDraco · 41-45, M
There are multiple reasons.
1) Projection: Some people are just wired for mono. They do not have the ability to romantically love more than one person at a time and they project that upon other people. Because they can't do it, they believe that people in poly relations are not experiencing what they consider actual love.
2) Religious polygamist groups got up to some really shady shit and people assign guilt by association even if polyamory and other polygamist arrangements have nothing to do with the bad behaviors of those cults.
3) There is a huge sense of ownership in US relationships. People act like they own their partner. Seeing a partner with someone else is viewed as a betrayal of that ownership. This aspect doesn't just affect views on polyamory, but it is also behind the way even monogamous relationships tend to explode when they end and people who once liked each other end up hating each other.
1) Projection: Some people are just wired for mono. They do not have the ability to romantically love more than one person at a time and they project that upon other people. Because they can't do it, they believe that people in poly relations are not experiencing what they consider actual love.
2) Religious polygamist groups got up to some really shady shit and people assign guilt by association even if polyamory and other polygamist arrangements have nothing to do with the bad behaviors of those cults.
3) There is a huge sense of ownership in US relationships. People act like they own their partner. Seeing a partner with someone else is viewed as a betrayal of that ownership. This aspect doesn't just affect views on polyamory, but it is also behind the way even monogamous relationships tend to explode when they end and people who once liked each other end up hating each other.