Comment on My friends are really curious if the dad and son I’m dating have similar sized dicks
muzzle@lemmy.zip 5 days agoWait, what’s the difference between a triad and a triangle?
Comment on My friends are really curious if the dad and son I’m dating have similar sized dicks
muzzle@lemmy.zip 5 days agoWait, what’s the difference between a triad and a triangle?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Number of simultaneous participants.
protist@retrofed.com 5 days ago
Is this saying a love triangle is a threesome? I’ve literally never heard the term love triangle describe a threesome
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Love triangle is different, and usually context is competitive non-dating and usually in a monogamous context.
A “love triangle” is different from a “triangle”.
A love triangle is what we see in movies from Hollywood, most commonly with two guys fighting over winning a girl or something.
A triangle, when it comes to ENM, is when all three people sleep together.
Whereas a triad (ENM term, again) would be like three people (persons A, B, and C), all living alone. Look at the arrows in the picture, those are the relationships. A and B are in a relationship, but all three are not in a relationship.
The way to think about it is, with three people in a triad, there are only three relationships. With a triangle (or another shape where everybody’s in a relationship, like a quad) you add an extra relationship count for the group itself. So for a triangle (or whatever people want to call it if they want to differentiate) where it is threesomes and they all travel as a pack, there are four relationships: each couple and the group itself.
And to make it more complicated, the shapes aren’t necessarily closed: some or all of them can have other relationships, sometimes even different types, too. Like three people living and in a group relationship, and person A is simultaneously in a different trianlge or triad, and person C might have basically just a fuck buddy, or even just a cuddle partner, like if that cuddle partner has really really similar high compatibility emotionally but not sexually.
ENM is great.
protist@retrofed.com 3 days ago
That’s a lot of labels and definitions