Start being honest with yourself and your needs, download Relish for help getting started on your unconventional relationship journey. Instead, you can look to other relationships to fill social, romantic or sexual needs. The benefit of polyamory is that you don’t have to find all of your needs in one person, or stress them to be something they are not. If the idea of your partner off with someone else would detract from your alone time, causing you to stress or worry, then this is not the solution for you. And if your partner is open to the idea of seeing other people. This will only work for people that are genuinely excited about the idea of spending time alone. This relationship style can offer you a guilt-free break in which you don’t have to stress about letting your partner down for not meeting their social needs.
If you feel like you can’t keep up with your partner, or just want more time to yourself without falling short in the eyes of your partner, then you should consider a polyamorous relationship in which your partner can pursue other relationships or affairs while you take your much needed time alone. Even if this person is your soulmate, you might just not have the social bandwidth to meet their needs all the time, which can create stress for you and disappointment for them in the relationship. It can be exhausting trying to match the energy level of your extroverted partner, especially if you haven’t had enough alone time to recharge your social battery. If you are an introverted person dating an extrovert, and you feel like you are fundamentally not on the same page about your social calendar, you may want to consider an unconventional relationship style. The following are just a few signs that monogamy isn’t right for you: * You are an introvert dating an extrovert If you feel like monogamy might not be for you, there are a few things you can reflect on to evaluate if you are the non-monogamous type. If you are interested in learning more about non-monogamous relationship styles (because there are many different types), you can turn to the internet and other places to do some research to see if a particular style of non-monogamy is appealing to you.
It’s difficult to know if monogamy isn’t right for you because it tends to be the default, and many people do not have experience with unconventional relationship styles. Just like unconventional relationships aren’t for everyone, monogamous relationships aren’t for everyone either. This is not due to closed-mindedness or a lack of free-spiritedness necessarily: unconventional relationships just aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. While unconventional relationship styles are becoming less taboo, they are not for everyone. While non-monogamy used to be rather taboo, it is becoming more and more mainstream and accepted as people are opening up to unconventional relationship styles. In this day and age, more and more people, especially people in the millennial generation are realizing that the traditional monogamous relationship style is not for them. Many people are not fulfilled in monogamous relationships, and instead pursue other less conventional relationship styles, like polyamory or throuples. It’s what normally comes to mind when you think of traditional romantic relationships, but it is by no means the only type of relationship out there. Swinging, monogamish, polyamorous/polyfidelitous, and anarchistic relationships can all be considered “open.Okay so what is monogamy anyways? Monogamy is defined as a relationship in which you only have one partner (sexual or romantic or both) at a time. Generally rooted in specific rules, expectations, and communication between those involved, open relationships may take a variety of forms and may evolve over time as needed to meet the needs of those persons involved. A couple practicing this relationship type might engage in sexual activity with the secondary partner together or separately, or they may each have independent outside relationships with different secondary partners-regardless of the specific parameters, the primary couple always remains a priority. The most common form of open relationship is that of a married or long-term committed couple that takes on a third (or sometimes fourth or fifth) partner whose involvement and role in the relationship is always secondary. Open relationships are varied enough to be an umbrella term for consensually non-monogamous relationships based on a primary couple who are “open” to sexual contact with others.