One day I asked what someone’s relationship status was, and they said “I have a girlfriend but she’s been missing and is presumed dead, so I don’t know if getting another GF would be cheating”. It’s at that moment when I realized how complicated relationship statuses can get. Like that Seinfeld episode where the guy is in a coma so he lends his girlfriend to another guy.
One of my distant relatives met her college sweetheart and married him. At the wedding the groom’s father fell for and later married the bride’s mother as both had deceased partners. Several generations later that branch of the family tree is a knot.
More like a ladder.
My friend’s husband cheated on her right before she got pregnant, so now he has 2 kids about a month apart. At one point, he was living in another state, they were still legally married, and she was seriously dating someone that she was considering marrying while raising both kids because neither of the bio parents were capable. Probably that?
What is that?
Star Trek Enterprise episode where the polyamorous Dr. Phlox introduces his wife Feezal to Trip, she makes him uncomfortable by aggressively flirting with him in front of her husband.
I had forgotten about this episode!
In my personal experience, true poly couples often act the way that Phlox/Feezal do around a potential new partner. In all cases I’ve seen they respect the boundaries that the new partner sets, like here Trip feels weird and expresses that later in the episode, so they back off.
Poly relationships would have been a really cool dynamic to explore on Enterprise though, so it’s somewhat of a missed opportunity. Oh well.
