Glamour
Nope, most poly people aren’t poly because they’re afraid to settle down. In fact, like a lot of pieces of the poly puzzle, things are a lot more complicated than that. “Being one of several partners [doesn’t mean] that my partner isn’t ‘really’ committed to our relationship, or that he can’t ‘be with me,’” said sex writer Anabelle Bernard Fournier. “He is with me. All the time. We just don’t live together, and we’re not married. Commitment is not a function of coliving. Commitment is about being there for the other person.”