A Polyamorist’s web of connections looks more like the six-degrees-of-separation associations found on social networks…
So, for a while she lived with Jim, and they loved each other and they drove each other batty. (“He used to work for the NRA and I hate guns.”) Then she met Tim, who was more on her wavelength, and now they live together, but she still sees Jim and also has a partner named Carla. Tim, Jim and Carla, of course, have other partners, and when Wagner maps out those connections as far as she can; the number reaches 18. Her relationships are “V’s” - the most common poly type - which means that she is the connection point between multiple other people. She sees Tim and Jim, but Tim and Jim do not see each other.
