gail

In conversation with one of the (not so)Smalls today I realised what a silly expression “mate for life” is - it’s not like the gibbons or swans or whatever are getting put into arranged marriages as soon as they are born!

It also seems to conflate non-monogamy with only short-term relationships/casual recreational sex. Which is not my (human) experience of being polyamorous. Wondering now which, if any, non-human species have a pattern of multiple long term relationships?