Yes, You Can Feel Jealousy and Compersion at the Same Time

You don’t need to wait until you’ve defeated jealousy before you can start enjoying ethical non-monogamy.

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Discovering Polyamory

5 min readJan 8, 2024

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I was recently browsing polyamorous social media when I read a post from someone who was celebrating a revelation. For the purpose of this anecdote, we’ll call this person “X”.

Yes, You Can Feel Jealousy and Compersion at the Same Time

You don’t need to wait until you’ve defeated jealousy before you can start enjoying ethical non-monogamy.

Written by Thomas H. Brand