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Every day brings a new experience and a new term manufactured to suit our desires, lifestyles, changes, and developments in our societies. These changes include feminism, culture, polygamy, open relationships, and polyamorous relationship. Today, polyamory has become the new relationship trend worldwide.

My observation of trends reveals that marriage or monogamy could be an old-fashioned concept for the next generation.

What is Polyamory?

Polyamory refers to people engaging in multiple romantic relationships at the same time with the consent of all those involved.

It advocates willingly choosing the number of partners one wants to get involved with instead of conforming to the social norms that dictate having one partner at a time. Polyamory is quite different from polygamy.

Polygamy is defined as a marriage between one person and two or more spouses simultaneously. It exists in two main forms: polygyny, where one man is married to several women, and polyandry, where one woman is married to several men.

What is a Polyamorous Relationship?

People in polyamorous relationships can have different sexual orientations: gay, bisexual, straight, lesbian, etc. Polyamory is characterized by emotional or sexual intimacy between partners. People in this kind of relationship are aware of how many people are involved and have given their consent to be polyamorous.

In a polyamorous relationship, sometimes one relationship can be prioritized over another and other times, they can be equal.

Observing all activities involved in a polyamorous relationship, one might ask; is this relationship the key to having a fruitful relationship and, an opportunity to receive the satisfaction that an individual desires? Can humans, in general, be satisfied ever? That’s a question for you to ponder.

Polyamorous people say it is not possible to get everything you want from one person and that is partly the reason for people to engage in such relationships.

Arguments on a Polyamorous Relationship

There have been arguments between polyamorous people and those who oppose the concept.
Some polyamorous people say that polyamory is an evolutionary process for them and allows them to accept their true feelings for people.

Others say polyamory is about building trust and letting your relationship grow organically with your partner. Married couples who are engaged in polyamory claim that it is the best and has sustained their marriages.

Those opposing the polyamorous lifestyle contend that polyamory only prevents one from being the best version of himself or herself. It prevents one from cultivating the habits of appreciativeness, endurance, and faithfulness.

They argue that it is an escape route to give in to all bodily pleasures or desires. Also, the idea of ‘accepting one’s true feelings for people’ is only accepting that a person has no control over his desires and is only finding a suitable word to conceal ‘cheating.’ The addition is finding others to agree to this relationship- an argument polyamorous people claim is a lie or a myth.

Another argument made by non-polyamorous people is that even among friendship, or parenting, love cannot be shared equally. Polyamory does not give people the opportunity to work on their monogamous relationships. The morality and core values of marriage are downtrodden.

Does Polyamory lead to a more fulfilling relationship?

Everyone has the right to engage in any relationship they prefer. But there is no denying that as society evolves and undergoes change, it brings about all kinds of development. That development, even when it is detrimental to humans but preferred by the majority and the ones with authority, becomes mandatory for all to accept as the best solution for the betterment of our world.

All knots that prevent the rope from falling from the hand are loosening up. People are cheering, and overlooking the problem it will cause. Sadly, teenagers are also engaged in polyamorous relationships. Parents are ignoring the impact of their polyamorous lives on their wards.

The priority has now become the quest to satisfy the soul and body. Someone once said, “The more you try to satisfy your soul, the more you destroy your body because if it is just body satisfaction alone, you will end on the first try, but constantly trying makes it a quest to satisfy the soul, of which the soul can never be satisfied.”

Upon everything that is going on in the world, is this what the world needs? What is your judgment?