slow pokes

[firecat]

This looks like it's going to be a cool community:

slow_poke_poly

From the community info:

...there are probably more of us 'slow and careful' polys out there than any of us suspect, and we do face some unique challenges in navigating the dating pool.... which often SEEMS to be heavily populated by folks splashing wildly in the deep end. We slow pokes, in the shallow end of the pool with our float toys, celebrate our uniqueness here.

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i just dropped over and read through, and it's making me all teeth gnashy. on the other hand, i am a tad easily irritable about generalizations about being friends with all your exes.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

oooh. and i just figured out something else that was irritating me.

my overall worst for values of worst that include therapy and suicidal impulses and etcetera relationship? knew him for three years first. we were friends first. went slow.

my longest lasting and happiest relationship to date? we met in january and i asked him to move in in april. we think it was april, anyhow. it was before easter that year. (he didn't actually move in until summer.)

[/cranky]

[firecat]

Sometimes you just know...

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I was engaged to blackfyr within three months of the day we met.

[firecat]

I don't think "slow" has much to do with "friends with exes" myself. Certainly not for me.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

"Friends with exes" sounds too much like a pun to me.