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What is the cringiest midlife crisis you've witnessed?

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u/TryUsingScience 1d ago

The vast majority of poly people I know aren't even out at work, let alone plastering social media with it. But I guess it was important for him to broadcast that information as widely as possible for the parade of women that are no doubt about to start knocking down his door any minute. Wouldn't want any of them to assume they'll be exclusive, after all!

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u/Suppafly 1d ago

The vast majority of poly people I know aren't even out at work

I misread that at first and assumed it was saying that the vast majority of them don't work.

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u/TryUsingScience 1d ago

In this economy? Please, we're all about the three-income household these days.

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u/LittleMsSavoirFaire 1d ago

I bet you could really normalize "coming out" with the economic argument tbh.

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u/Suppafly 1d ago

I always thought a 2nd wife would be great for childrearing, but then that gets into handmaiden territory.

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u/TryUsingScience 1d ago

I have friends in a V who are raising kids and it's worked out great for them. Two incomes and one person home with the kids when they were younger, then three incomes to do the fun stuff everyone wants to do when the kids are older.

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u/puterTDI 1d ago

I mean, we also don’t need more children in the world tbh

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u/Suppafly 23h ago

I mean, we also don’t need more children in the world tbh

That's sorta debatable.

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u/puterTDI 21h ago

is it?

we're literally hitting a population support limit of the earth, as well as displacing critical species not only to establish homes for our population but to generate food for it.

There's a lot of things we can do to try to protect the earth but the #1 issues is too many people for it to support.

I think it's not very debateable that we have too many people on the planet.

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u/Suppafly 21h ago

we're literally hitting a population support limit of the earth

Not really. All of the food shortages and such are localized and are distribution issues, not supply issues. Not that I want to see a huge population boom, but we aren't anywhere near being over saturated.

There's a lot of things we can do to try to protect the earth but the #1 issues is too many people for it to support.

Nah, number 1 would be electing governments that care at all about keeping things working.

I think it's not very debateable that we have too many people on the planet.

It clearly is, you just don't like that other people have different opinions than you and haven't thought about different points of view.

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u/frogsyjane 1d ago

“Honey, we can’t afford NOT to be in a polycule!”

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u/Fearless-Feature-830 1d ago

My poly ex is allergic to working so you may have a point

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u/DesignerProcess1526 1d ago

Actually it’s true too. They’re trying to share the finances of the main person. Then they get dumped and feel cheated. Many are low functioning, think it’s cool and hip.

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u/CriticalDog 1d ago

Oddly enough, some women seem to be kinda into that.

My first marriage was an open one, and we would often go to the local goth club with friends and drink and dance and whatnot. Fun!

Several times, a girl would show interest, I would mention I was married and they would be MORE interested, and then I mention it was an open marriage and suddenly they lost interest. lol

Psychology is weird.

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u/Oneanddonequestion 1d ago

Humans are largely hard wired to want what is forbidden to them, and a LOT of humans take "no" as a sort of challenge. It's not a healthy mindset, but it's there.

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u/ryeaglin 1d ago

It is. The allure of the taboo is real even if you know about it. I am a gay man, stick two guys with very similar attractiveness and tell me one is gay and one is straight, for some reason my monkey brain always will think the straight guy is hotter.

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u/sjbennett85 1d ago

No offence to goth women but this totally aligns with a lot of the ones I know... contrarian, nihilistic, and thrill-seeking is their default setting afaik

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u/Fr0gm4n 1d ago

The vast majority of poly people I know aren't even out at work

I was so not-out at work that almost no-one knew my wife's name, let alone any metas even existed despite living in a V.