Insight required - if your partner had another partner, what would your feelings be?

[Downinthebottomofthegarden]

I'd appreciate any insight or advice with regards to a strange scenario.

Try and imagine your partner also had another partner. Not an affair, or secret fling, but someone who they'd been close to for a long time. I guess what could be described as a polygamous relationship.

How do you think your feelings towards your partner would be? Would you still love them the same? Would you still feel as close to them? Do you think it'd be possible for you to love them in the same way as you do now, given that they'd be sharing their love, energy, time with someone else that they love.

@WaningMoon

Monogamy was never invented - Mammals (including humans) pair bond, this is science not social conditioning.

Your use of the word “kink” makes me suspect I have been duped by someone on the wind up though.

This is absolutely not the case. There have been plenty of human societies which didn't practice monogamy. Human beings clearly do not 'naturally' go in for monogamy, and while some mammals do, others don't. I'm beginning to suspect that you are the one on the windup.