I recently started dating as a polyamorous person in June. I have a long term monogamous partner that determined that she was not interested in the polyamorous lifestyle for herself but she was willing to support me in my own journey. I began having virtual dates with someone I had known for a long time and built a strong, emotionally rich relationship. However it is long distance. We live on the east and west coast respectively. We officially became partners in July. She feels like such an important piece of my life and having her as a partner adds so much depth to my life but also it is layered with the insecurity of a new long distance relationship plus a new polyamorous relationship. She is currently practicing solo polyamory and I have always been supportive of this lifestyle for her because it just makes sense. It connects so perfectly to the person she is growing into and I love that for her. But now being her partner and long distance at times it makes me feel like when we arent connecting as much as I would like its because she is having more sustained and important connections with people that are local to her. This is completely imagined but at a certain point it might be inevitable. I know I am very important to her. But the reality is that I can never provide her the satisfaction of a sustained regular contact. That makes me insecure and I dont think I'm putting pressure on her to connect more but I'm afraid that eventually I'm going to feel resentment about the full relationships she deserves and the fact that I can never be that for her. With all of my effort, all of my love I just have limitations of distance. I'm already reading polysecure and I should probably pick up a book about long distance relationships. But does anyone have any personal experience or advice about feelings like this? I dont want to burden my partner with these feelings. She doesnt deserve that.
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