You'll need courage because polyamorous relationships can be scary. Loving other people without a script is scary. Allowing the people you love to make their own choices without controlling them is scary. The kind of courage we're talking about involves being willing to let go of guarantees - and love and trust your partners anyway.Franklin Veaux
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We all desire security and safety. We want to know that we can count on people and things in order to feel secure. We also want to be able to trust other people and their ideas and actions. But we can't always be sure of how people and things will behave.
Sometimes we get hurt and we don't understand why it happened. Others make different choices than we would make, plans don't work out as we expected, and we may get frustrated when others don't follow our rules. Knowing that love is an unpredictable thing can be very scary.
If one person in a polyamorous relationship has issues with trust, the rest of the partners are likely to experience similar feelings of insecurity.
Source: More Than Two: A Practical Guide To Ethical Polyamory
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