Why do I want polyamory representation?

• Because when someone doesn’t want to date me because I’m poly it’s  ‘understandable’ but when I don’t want to date someone because they are  monogamous it’s ‘ridiculous.’ 
• Because all relationship advice tells you that if you have feelings  for someone else while you’re in a relationship you’re a bad person. 
• Because even liberals and leftists try to slut shame me. 
• Because when I tell people me and my partner have an open relationship they assume it’s because we’re going through a rough patch. 
• Because people equate ‘multiple partners’ with ‘predator’ and think everything I say is an attempt to get in their pants. 
• Because I am fed up of love triangles as easy plot devices in my media. 
• Because when a monogamous couple have sex with each other every night it’s having an active sex drive. When I have sex with a different  partner every night I’m a nymphomaniac. 
• Because people assume polyamory is just about multiple sex partners instead of multiple loving & committed relationships and instead conflate polyamory with swinging when they’re totally different lifestyles. 
• Because people think that monogamy = validity, always. 
• Because monogamy is so ingrained that I don’t even feel like I can  dance with someone without telling them the complete logistics of my  love life. 
• Because people genuinely believe that raising a child communally is damaging to development.
• Because when I say ‘I could never be monogamous’ I get dirty looks. 
• Because too many people have tried to confide in me when they’re  cheating because ‘I thought you, of all people, would understand.’ 
• Because I can’t talk about my relationship troubles with my monogamous friends because ‘I always have something to fall back on.’ As  if my relationships are less meaningful than a monogamous one. 
• Because being Polyamorous is just how I choose to live My life, so I can be happy. 
• Because being Polyamorous does not mean I’m afraid of commitment. I  am able to commit to many types of relationships. And love more than one  person. 
• Because it is unfair to ask any one person to be your/their  everything & it is a lot of pressure on me to try to be any one  partner’s everything. It can take over being authentically themselves if a person allows it to. 
• Because needing multiple or different kinds of energy/chemistry does not make me greedy or selfish. 
• Because actively encouraging myself to stretch out of today’s social  constructs of “love” & experience true compersion has made me a  better person. I also experience more open, honest communication &  healthier, less codependent relationships than when I was living a  monogamous lifestyle. 
• Because holding a partner while they cry over another partner is not  wrong, or weird. It is an absolutely amazing expression of the love I  have for them. I hurt with them/for their pain because I encourage their  happiness & fulfillment as much as I do my own. 
• Because I can love multiple partners & not have a “favorite”, in  the same way a parent can love multiple children & not have a  “favorite”. 
• Because love multiplies, it doesn’t divide. 
• Because being Poly isn’t about “dating,” it’s about realizing it’s  okay to create deep, whole relationships with more than one person. 

Feel free to add more “becauses” to reflect your Poly.