For those who really practice open relationships. How many partners is TOO many???

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For those who really practice open relationships. How many partners is TOO many???

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Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
What is the most "intimate" partners you can have before just the mundane stuff...remembering birthdays, deciding who to take out on a special holiday or to the one day a concert comes to town, makes it TOO MUCH.

Even if you do things as a "group" not a couple, at some point it becomes more then you can deal with, expense or attention wise, right? SO...how many is TOO many?????
05/12/2012
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Contributor: Pixel Pixel
This question was asked earlier, maybe some of the answers in the thread will be helpful to you. link
05/13/2012
Contributor: K101 K101
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Originally posted by Bignuf
What is the most "intimate" partners you can have before just the mundane stuff...remembering birthdays, deciding who to take out on a special holiday or to the one day a concert comes to town, makes it TOO MUCH.

Even if you do ... more
More than one is too many for me. I guess for others, it depends on their comfort levels.
05/13/2012
Contributor: WhoopieDoo WhoopieDoo
As of right now, I have 3 partners, but I see two of them only about once a month.
05/15/2012
Contributor: finnimbrun finnimbrun
Depends. You can have a bunch of different types of partners - long term, committed partners, casual but committed partners, strictly sexual partners and uncommitted, strictly sexual and committed... I honestly could go on and on.

My point with this is, it depends on the kind of partner you mean. And also what each person can handle. Some people can't imagine themselves poly because they couldn't handle more than one person, and some people are perfectly comfortable living with and committing to 10+ people for the rest of their lives. It honestly depends on the person.

I have two partners, both committed, and right now, that's a good number for me. I think I'd probably max out my "I can handle these people" threshold at 3 or 4 committed partners (and casual or strictly sexual, not a problem to handle, so I couldn't give you a number on how many of those is too many for me). I'm a very introverted person, and also not good with those romantic emotion things, or even those emotion things at all, and even having two sometimes can be rough.
05/31/2012