Slightly weird question: When you’re in a relationship with someone who is bi or pan, do you get jealous over any close relationship with anyone?
To preface this: I have never been in any romantic or sexual relationship. I am just extremely curious. I support lgbtq+. Ive been sitting on this question for a month. Let me explain my reasoning. Because, it’s pretty typical in relationships to get jealous of when your partner has a close relationship with someone of the same sex/gender as you. At least that’s what I see in relationships. At least I think that happens.
But if your partner has a bigger sampling size of people to choose from, then what happens? Are we jealous of all or none..? If jealously, described simply is feeling threatened by someone possibly stealing your partner, then this is magnified by the fact that said partner has a larger pool. If culturally, in the typical heterosexual relationship, when the partner has a friend that’s not related to them, and that friend is the opposite gender, it’s more likely for jealousy to spike, what happens in queer relationships when there are more fish in the sea?
Now that I’m thinking about it, it must be a nightmare to find out who your partner would be cheating with if you’re unfortunate in that situation.
Maybe I’m looking at this too analytically, but I’ve had this question for a week and it kept me up at night, so I grabbed my burner and asked.
Thank you for your input! Have an amazing evening!