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When my grandmother (rest her soul) was still alive, she witnessed some of my dating years in my early twenties. I remember thinking that some of her questions about my love life were very…direct and…odd. I also remember her thinking that may answers were at best hilarious and at worst offensive. She and my grandpa met in their late twenties, fell instantly in love, never spent a moment apart after that, and were married within 18 months of knowing each other. That was that. They were crazy about each other and the whole world knew it. I feel like nobody starts a relationship like that anymore. And when they do, we see it as a sign that they’re moving too fast. What is considered “fast” today was considered the only way to date in my grandma’s era. That’s just one of the many things that has changed. Here are modern relationship “norms” people of the past would find ridiculous.
Openly seeing other people
It’s not out of the ordinary for two individuals to spend a lot of time together, have sex together, and meet each other’s friends while openly seeing other people. It’s not quite polyamory because, they haven’t put any sort of label on their own relationship. But it is an acceptance that the person you’re intimate with is intimate with others.
