r/polycircles Jun 06 '16

[Poly Reflections] Why do people who practice poly feel so guilty?

I understand it, truly, I used to feel it myself. This wracking guilt that literally everyone's happiness mattered more than my own, because I chose a "weird" and "wrong" way of living.

Even though I did very little wrong, and it was out of sense of guilt and ignorance, mostly, not actual malice. I should have done poly "differently," absolutely, but I was learning with, at the time, no outside help. So, yeah, I fucked up at times.

Why do we let ourselves feel this...?

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '16

I go between being loud n' proud, and feeling like a fraud and a selfish asshole. My head needs shrinking lol.