A poly thought.

[randomness]

Your worth is not measured in the number of sweeties you're seeing.

Your worth is measured in how well you treat the sweetie(s) you're seeing.

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I would make a distinction between how one treats one's sweeties and how strong the relationship is.

I can, and like to think I have, treated those people I have been relatively casually involved with as much care and respect as I do anyone else I'm involved with. Does that mean I have had weak relationships? Sure. But I like to think I treated them as well as I was able, at the time.

How one treats people one hates is another measure of worth, but in my own life there have been fewer of those than people I've loved, so as a practical matter I think there may be difficulty in drawing useful inferences from that sample.