Love Explored: A Personal and Perhaps Practical Look into the Complexities of Love

Open Relationships

Krys Ghislaine
6 min readNov 29, 2022
Love Explored: Open Relationships

I have been wanting to write a segment on all the forms of human love the exist for quite a while. In part due to my time spent in the non-monogamous world which allowed me to explore a plethora of ways that humans show their affection, and sometimes just simply share physical pleasure with each other. Admittedly, there was one big thing stopping me from hitting publish. And that was that I had never felt that type of love that sweeps you off your feet and you just know will last forever. As a result of not fully understanding the poets, writers, painters, and musicians, I simply kept notes in the background, not quite sure what I would end up doing with them. Perhaps because, while I explored love, I’m was not sure that I ever believed it existed in the ways I read about. I was a love skeptic, convinced that my research would lead me down the path of the outsider. The consistently rational and pragmatic explorer.

Well, the tides have changed for me, or shifted, or whatever it is that tides do, and I can happily say, I am experiencing that thing that held me back from sharing anything that I researched about love. No longer do I feel like an onlooker into this mystical fantasy world. Nope, I can now write without even an ounce of hypocrisy. What I…

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