{"id":28257,"date":"2010-08-30T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=28257"},"modified":"2010-08-30T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T19:05:48","slug":"why-do-people-choose-polyamory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/why-do-people-choose-polyamory\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do people choose polyamory?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the topics we cover at Planet Waves is ‘alternative’ relationship choices, one of which is polyamory. A reader sent in this link from Psychology Today by Deborah Taj Anapol<\/strong><\/a>, a psychologist and pioneer of the poly community with whom I’ve worked in several different capacities since 1997. Deborah is a clear thinker and this article is a good example. She takes up a vital question — why do people choose polyamory? <\/p>\n

She writes:<\/p>\n

Just as there are many different forms a polyamorous relationship can take, there are many different reasons people choose polyamory. We’re not always conscious of the reasons we do things, and sometimes we even make up reasons which have little to do with our real motivations. I’m not saying that we intentionally lie to ourselves, and to others. Rather, we find ourselves doing something and then make up a story to explain it. We may sincerely believe this story, or we may suspect it’s fabricated. Either way, it’s not always easy to discover the reasons people choose polyamory. However, if you watch them over time, as I have, you can often determine their motivations by observing the results of their choices. And of course you can listen to what they say and what they report in anonymous surveys. I’ve employed all these methods to compile a fairly comprehensive view of possible motivations for choosing polyamory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I invite Planet Waves readers to comment — I’ll write to Deborah and let her know the comments are collecting, so you may reply directly to her on this page. <\/p>\n

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One of the topics we cover at Planet Waves is ‘alternative’ relationship choices, one of which is polyamory. A reader sent in this link from Psychology Today by Deborah Taj Anapol, a psychologist and pioneer of the poly community with whom I’ve worked in several different capacities since 1997. Deborah is a clear thinker and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}