Voices Of Chaos

polyamzeal:

By strict definitions that is often not considered polyamory and is instead swinging. Course labels can vague and there is lots of grey space between so not here to police your wording but other people probably would.

As for how common? It is very common couples that have been monogamous together for a long time and are first opening up their relationship. They certainly make up the most of what the media covers and presents. But hard to say how that compares to the whole when other forms of polyamory are represented so much less and live in the shadows/closet.

dracke2701

i think they’re saying that the relationship is romantically closed between the 3 members of their triad but they are open to having sex with people outside of said triad so if i understand well it’s definitely poly between the 3 of them but they also swing with other people outside of the triad (which may count as another form of polyamory or not, i’m not gonna judge that)

Wow! I totally misread this! I guess I shouldn’t answer asks when so hungry and tired. It is far more common to have a fully closed triad. And then an open triad does happen a good amount. But as for this half-closed triad, I don’t want to say I have never heard of it because I feel like there are some distant stories but yeah I would say that is pretty rare. But if it works for everybody then I wish you luck with it.