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This is tangentially related:

When I was younger, I was in an open relationship with someone. We were high-school sweethearts, and it worked for 6 years. Eventually, we adopted a third person into our relationship and became poly. That went well for a while. Sadly, hard drugs came into the equation, and my original partner was starting to do a lot of shady stuff behind my back. The relationship also started to get abusive. I confided in our new partner, which my old partner didn't like. We had been together 6 years, and it was hard to break it off immediately. That was the weirdest period of relationship limbo I've ever been in my entire life.

The straw that broke the camels back:

I was with my current partner, and my ex was calling me non-stop, asking if I was with them. I kept lying and saying no. They called again, and I said, "Please stop calling." It was then I realized I had answered my current partners phone this time, not mine. I got chewed out for a while by my ex. I'm happy to say that my partner and I have been together 7+ years now, and we're engaged. Also, now we're monogamous (because we want to). I still feel like an asshole to this day, though.

Poligamy doesn't necessarily involve cheating.

I'm in an (semi) open poly relationship now. I remember the first time I told my wife I needed some privacy because I was going to do some stuff with an online partner. Her face lit up. She was so excited. The same way someone would look at a close friend excited to gush about a new partner.

It's been amazing. There have been rough moments but that's going to be the case in any relationship.

This is so disgustingly cute, we were watching The Boss Baby with our partner and (major The Boss Baby spoilers, better look away) at the end Tim realizes that his parents' love is wide enough for both him and The Boss Baby and, it was such a surreal moment. Watching this goofy movie with this moral that's weirdly applicable to the situation we're in.