Small rant, but seriously, people need to stop trying to police other people's relationships, be them platonic, romantic, or anything in between.
There's a lot of stupid puritanism and rules lawyering on how grown adults should act, and it just feels disingenuous as fuck. The truth is, these people don't care if someone is in an abusive relationship or in any imminent danger at all, they just care about controlling what other people do on their relationships as a sort of power play to validate their emotional immaturity and narrow worldview.
And the worst part is, these "relationship cops" aren't just trying to police actual harmful behavior, like controlling whom your partner should talk to, going through their phone without their consent, and more isolating behavior like these, they literally want to impose some sort of puritanical, anti-sexual, clean image of relationships (platonic, romantic or queerplatonic) that literally defeats the purpose of having any kind of relationships at all.
I'm poly, I have three girlfriends, I kiss and cuddle with my best friends, and I don't need to give that sort of relationship a title other than friendship because it doesn't need one, just for some fucking asshole (pardon my french) show up and tell me that I shouldn't be "cheating" on my girlfriend(s) or "leading them on without choosing one", that I really shouldn't be dating anyone if I'm "so immature as to not be able to commit", and my favorite, that I shouldn't open my relationship just to make my "cheating partner" happy.
Queerplatonic relationships exist! Polyamorous people exist! I'll kiss my girlfriends in public wherever and whenever because I love them, I'll tell my friends how much I love and appreciate them while we cuddle, and fuck you and your bigoted ass if that makes you uncomfortable. I'm not the problem, poly people are not the problem, and the sort of relationships we have are not the problem, you are.
Go touch grass.
