Comments on: Ask the Misanthrope: Secondary Rights http://www.polyamorousmisanthrope.com/2009/08/03/ask-the-misanthrope-secondary-rights/ Wielding the Stick of Grandmotherly Kindness Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sue Donnim http://www.polyamorousmisanthrope.com/2009/08/03/ask-the-misanthrope-secondary-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-14282 Sue Donnim Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:34:21 +0000 http://www.polyamorousmisanthrope.com/?p=325#comment-14282 From the Secondaries' Bill of Rights: "I have the right to have and express all of my emotions." This applies AFTER the relationship ends, too. After my secondary relationship broke up, my ex-partner tried to make me feel guilty merely for mentioning that bare fact. No names, no details, no discussion of reasons or blame, not enough information to identify anybody else involved, just the fact that I'd broken up with my unnamed secondary and I was feeling miserable about it. Screw that. From the Secondaries’ Bill of Rights: “I have the right to have and express all of my emotions.”

This applies AFTER the relationship ends, too. After my secondary relationship broke up, my ex-partner tried to make me feel guilty merely for mentioning that bare fact. No names, no details, no discussion of reasons or blame, not enough information to identify anybody else involved, just the fact that I’d broken up with my unnamed secondary and I was feeling miserable about it.

Screw that.

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