> Very happily married,

How relevant. Sounds oddly like a “gotcha” of sorts; still, I can’t help but wonder how happily married you really are considering you felt the need to bring it up entirely unprompted in an otherwise entirely unrelated note.

It’s a joke. Parent mentioned wife and girlfriend.

I don't get the joke

very happily married here too

My open friend said the same thing before his wife left him for the boyfriend and took his house. Good times.

I'm fairly involved with such communities and I've never seen a poly relationship that lasts long. All power to the people that can do it, but it's anecdotally rare and it's not for me.

Pretending that everyone automatically understands your relationship arrangement sure does get the intended reactions, doesn’t it?

The intended reaction was to discuss vibration patterns and morse code. I honestly didn’t even realize that would sound weird because we’re so used to it that we don’t realize when we say things like that, I apologize. I don’t see a way to delete my parent comment or I would

Yeah, that’s totally on him and not the rest of the HN jerks purposefully trying to insult him to feel better about themselves.