This*100. As someone who was involved with a few polyamorous communities, it's far from being something that everyone can feel comfortable with. Like anything with relationships and human interactions, it's not for everyone, and even if it's for you now, it doesn't mean it's for you always. What we need is to allow people the fluidity and freedom to choose how they want to live and who they want to love. I saw some people really being miserable in polyamorous relationships.

>I saw some people really being miserable in polyamorous relationships.

How many people are miserable in monogamous relationships?

Many, which is to say that it's not the framework that makes one satisfied, it's how much it represents what one wants. The people who were suffering in this polyamourous relationships usually suffered because they felt bad about being jealous, not living up to what the community expected of them, not being good enough to let their parents be with other people. What I'm trying to say is that it's not a specific path that makes one happy, it's the ability to choose your path and to constantly recalculate it.

I absolutely agree. For some people, polyamory works better, and more power to them. But for others, a single partner, married or otherwise, is what they choose. Marriage is itself a strange, archaic ritual.

>> Social acceptance of ... whatever people are comfortable with should be the aim

If this is what one wishes, and you don't already live in the Bay Area, then you should come here. I feel that this is what most people around me wish for.

But my true love is a private, quiet office ... :(