Can poly families become communities of relationship anarchy by incorporating friendships into the family and dismantling the superiority of sex and romance? And if so, what are important steps?
Are queer people that create intimate and mutually supportive chosen families (often without prioritizing romantic & sexual partners in the new family) practicing relationship anarchism?
I am deeply deeply in love with someone, the ‘wanting to spend every waking moment together’ variety and the feeling is mutual and I love that. I’m pretty sure this feeling happens to many people and is not just a capitalist fantasy to sell magazines. This obviously doesn’t mean that just because this feeling is real, all the bullshit that society attaches to romance is real too. Nor is it something that stop me from practicing relationship anarchy. But I still feel like I need to figure out where exactly such an overwhelming feeling fits into all this?
Thoughts sparked by relationship anarchy is not about sex or polyamory. (As you can see right now I’m quite focussed on the deconstruction of the role of sex and romance. I’ll get to other parts later.)
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