Most of the benefit I see from polyamory is the way it makes deliberately-assembled extended families instead of loosely-connected pair bonds. Certainly I started doing it because my boyfriend wanted it for love, but the reasons I actively want to stick with it are the social bonds and it making each component relationship more resilient. In an atomized society, a relationship style that coalesces a community into short chains of strong bonds supports a community ideal that feels quite green.
Most of the benefit I see from polyamory is the way it makes deliberately-assembled extended families instead of loosely-connected pair bonds. Certainly I started doing it because my boyfriend wanted it for love, but the reasons I actively want to stick with it are the social bonds and it making each component relationship more resilient. In an atomized society, a relationship style that coalesces a community into short chains of strong bonds supports a community ideal that feels quite green.