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opened up the relationship.
then, once i had women interested in sleeping with me she freaked the fuck out and said it would be cheating if I did it, that 'we' shouldn't have done that and then all the sudden she wanted to be monogamous again, after months of asking to open things up so we could 'both see other people'. because it wasn't cheating if she wanted to have sex with other people... that was me being 'lacking an open mind' or being 'insecure'.
least to say we broke up a few months later. i have dated some other poly/enm women and it was always just like that... the second they found out I with someone else they immediately told me it was cheating on them.
which is why i no longer bother with people who even hint at enm anymore. complete double standards.
That's really unfortunate. ENM can be truly excellent, but only with the right partners and the right mindset. It takes all the difficulties of one monogamous relationship and multiplies the difficulty by a thousandfold, for sure.
Honestly I've always found it to be easier for me. Not to say many don't find it more difficult, but I found monogamy to be stressful and nonmonogamy to generally just be a logistics problem rather than an emotions one.
Different people struggle with different things though
Porn hasn't helped it either. It's a popular topic but you only see the brief moments and not the after, and like you said, it takes both compatible people AND an agreement on expectations. One person strays from that, and you've messed things up for probably everyone involved with each other. I think it would only work if each person cared for the others at the same level, and not one being an "extra".