After some confusing moments over the last few weeks, and particularly this week (some entirely my own internal confusion, other bits of confusion at least partially engendered by other people), I now appear to have two girlfriends*. As I've grown rather attached to both of them in the last few months, this makes me very happy.

And lo, there was much fluffiness. And kittens. Etc. :)

This is the first time I've had to deal with two relationships both appearing and growing at pretty much the same time... it's been a very different experience to that of being in one relationship and finding another. I think this has been considerably trickier, although at least part of that was caused by one of the people not having heard of poly before - the explanations seem a bit more emotionally fraught when 'the other person' is neither entirely hypothetical at the time, nor entirely a confirmed part of your life yet.

In other news, I got another middle-of-the-night phone call last night/this morning - 5:36am this time, withheld number again. It's kind of intriguing, but only to the extent that I'll note it here... can't see me deciding to leave the phone unrestricted at night to find out who it is, I like my sleep :) Anyway, they'd leave a message if they wanted me to know - it's obviously either some kind of wind-up or some kind of cock-up.


* fsvo 'girlfriend', given that one of them seems to have a mild objection to labelling relationships at present, and the other one is still a bit wary of the concept of poly but has decided that it's worth exploring the idea more.