Polyamory = Legal Cheating

[loracs]

A few days ago I went with dbubley to an appointment with one of her doctors, Dr. K.  I've been to most of her appointments with this doctor and I'm pretty verbal, i.e. asking questions.  And Dr. K. knows we are domestic partners and we've strayed off of medical talk a few times.  Dr. K. has mentioned a few things about her family, she's Muslim, not married and has several nieces and nephews she's close to, that sort of thing. 

I was wearing my alt-poly con t-shirt and Dr. K. asks me what it means. 

dbubley  couldn't wait to see what I would say.  The question caught me off guard, so I didn't have the usual "it's an on-line group that gets together every year" when I don't want to go into the whole poly explanation.  I answered her honestly with a short "it's about people who believe having more than one relationship is okay" and then I used the shorthand word "non-monogamy".  Her response was "Oh, you mean legal cheating."

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[loracs.livejournal.com]

That was my first response too. Then it just felt like she was doing her best to put it in her own language, even if it makes most people scratch their head.