# Old Friends coming out as polyamorous

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-friends-coming-out-as-polyamorous/519921>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 4, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-friends-coming-out-as-polyamorous/519921 "2009-12-04T00:01:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-friends-coming-out-as-polyamorous/519921/101 "2009-12-06T21:43:28Z")

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**Dio** – enough. You’ve made your point, you don’t approve. This isn’t GD, and if you want to argue about it, you’ve inspired a Pit thread in which to do so. In this MPSIMS thread, let it go.

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**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-friends-coming-out-as-polyamorous/519921/102 "2009-12-06T22:02:41Z")

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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> When was it entered into evidence that this guy says that he’s happy?
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> Women stay with batterers and womanizers too, you know. Calling that evidence of happiness is beyond specious.

Equally, the fact they’re staying together and the fact that “acceptance” is the only word used are not evidence of unhappiness, either.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-friends-coming-out-as-polyamorous/519921/103 "2009-12-06T22:33:17Z")

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**Zeriel** – since I’ve asked **Dio** to let the debate drop, I’d appreciate it if you’d let it drop also. Feel free to continue this in the Pit thread, and let’s leave this one to the OP’s situation with her friends, and how others have dealt with similar situations in their own lives, not abstractions and generalities.

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**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-friends-coming-out-as-polyamorous/519921/104 "2009-12-07T02:45:50Z")

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Yeah, sorry, was a case of typed, posted a while later, no preview in between.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-friends-coming-out-as-polyamorous/519921/105 "2009-12-07T03:45:08Z")

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No prob.

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**Author:** ![flyboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-friends-coming-out-as-polyamorous/519921/106 "2009-12-07T21:48:41Z")

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Is it me, or has it been three days since the lunch? What happened???

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