[Elspode]

Smells like troll in here. Let's see if this works as Thread Freshener...

So...the topic of this thread is Jealousy. Thought I'd throw my update on my own somewhat nonstandard home life in here.

For those of you who glimpsed my Friday Nite Lit thread, regarding my intoxicated ponderings over my wife's first solo carnal outing in several years, well, my turn has come around tonight. I'll be seeing a lady who had been half of the couple we cavorted with the last time we were on the Poly path. Following their experience with Mrs Elspode and I, they moved on and had a relationship with another couple, and my lady friend's husband ended up running off with the corresponding couple's female half. Not one of Polyamory's shining moments, huh?

My wife is unconcerned over the notion that my lady friend and I will possibly be engaging in intimate physical acts. No, she's concerned that my lady friend and I actually like each other too much. She's worried that my lady friend will want me to herself or some such, despite my own decided lack of desire to either add a second serious partner to my life, or to leave my wife, whom I love and admire.

I bring this up because I find it odd, myself. From my male vantage point, I actually have more problem with the idea that some other dude can make my woman twist and shout, that someone else is going to be better in the sack than I. I mean, *I* believe she's not going to run off, but it still bugs me that someone else might be a better cocksman. She, on the other hand, isn't worried about (as she puts it) where I "stick my d*ck"...she's afraid I'll share some part of me or my life with someone else that I don't share with her, or that I'll be smitten and weak, and *I'll* run off.

So...ladies...gents...what say you? Are we *both* irrational? Is one of us experiencing a more sensible "jealousy" than the other? Or are we just destined to burn in Hell?