Re:Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?
by rms on Sunday March 13, 2011 @05:52AM
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As long as you can learn how to suppress or ignore or never have jealousy, multiple relationships seem strictly better (= more fun) to me than monogamy.
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In addition to suppressing and ignoring jealousy, another option is to learn how to acknowledge and deal with it. Just as fear is quite a natural thing and hinders people in accomplishing their goals, so can jealousy be a hindrance to happy relationships. Both can be successfully managed however.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
I believe the same can be said of jealousy. Also note that unchecked jealousy is not strictly a problem of polyamory; it wreaks havoc even in monogamous relationships.Yes, I should have also said "accept jealousy" as a possibly superior option.
Did anyone else accidentally parse (= more fun) as a strange prefix notation way of saying "more relationships = fun?"
If not, I apologize in advance for my insanity. ;)