However, Cupressaceae continues to hide their lifestyle from extended family, knowing their mother would be humiliated and incensed. Cupressaceae practices ethical non-monogamy, also known as consensual non-monogamy, a term spanning a wide range of relationship styles, including polyamory. The study, which surveyed a representative sample of people across Canada, found that 3. The numbers may not seem high, but these younger demographics outranked any others, leading the authors to conclude that the prevalence of consensual non-monogamy could increase over time.
In all, 2. Yet, to many in a society built on serial monogamy, non-monogamous lifestyles are an inconceivable curiosity, if not a moral malfunction. I could never do that. While many non-monogamous people report having to work through feelings of jealousy, many polyamorous people describe an inverse emotional experience known as compersion.
For MJ, who struggled with faithfulness all her life, the lifestyle was a revelation. She had never encountered ethical non-monogamy during her three years at Concordia. She insists sexual desire is not at the centre of her lifestyle.
Rather, she relishes the freedom to allow connections with others to grow organically, without the need to pigeonhole people into certain roles in her life. When they finally leapt into the lifestyle, they did so with one rule: that if either wanted to stop, they would stop. They had talked about their fear that one of them might fall in love with someone else, but reasoned this is possible in monogamy, too. Maltais believes non-monogamy has enriched her relationship, in large part because of the level of communication it demands.
She credits her sexology education, feminism, and interest in psychedelic drugs with the critical mindset that equipped her to revisit the parameters of her relationship. Despite this confidence, curiosity from those with normative relationships and love styles can feel like an attack. They said these comments used to be very hurtful.
