This is pretty normal since the 60's. People just didn't call it "poly".
Think about the tv show Friends: all the men and women paired off at different times. Same thing for How I met your mother or Rent. This kind of thing is very commonly in the restaurant business, resort staff, among frats / sororities, and of course FTX/Ameida (ba dum tss).
The difference with GenZ is this behavior is being explicitly codified into this monstrosity of all the worst aspects of HR/pop-psychiatry/family-law. It was always messy before we started calling it a polycule, but alleged solution seems (to this cranky old man) to be worse than letting it play out.
This is pretty normal since the 60's. People just didn't call it "poly".
Think about the tv show Friends: all the men and women paired off at different times. Same thing for How I met your mother or Rent. This kind of thing is very commonly in the restaurant business, resort staff, among frats / sororities, and of course FTX/Ameida (ba dum tss).
The difference with GenZ is this behavior is being explicitly codified into this monstrosity of all the worst aspects of HR/pop-psychiatry/family-law. It was always messy before we started calling it a polycule, but alleged solution seems (to this cranky old man) to be worse than letting it play out.