I found this blog entry pretty much by random and although the tips it gives are for staying monogomous, I think the five tips could easily be reworded to cover just about any relationship.
Tips For Adulthood: Five Ways To Stay Monogamous
Is this it? Are there just five steps that can lead everyone to happiness? The answer is: No. Each and every relationship is different. But surely there’s some kind of basic function that can be found. Maybe make it a function of time so that it can change as the relationship progresses (okay, I’m busted. I do have an engineering degree. A lot of things in my life I try to boil down to functions). We could even get into pre relationship things. Like number 2:
2. Choose a Partner With Whom You Share Many Interests. In my humble opinion, one of the main reasons people wander is that they don’t have enough in common with their partners/spouses to begin with. While you don’t need to have completely overlapping interests (see below), with so many things clamoring for your attention – work, children, aging parents – you do need to enjoy doing the same things in your free time.
Yeah. That seems like a good start. So we can let L = Love and t = time. But first you have to like don’t you? You can’t fall into love without meeting and getting to know someone. We had better add an l = like. Ah hell. This is going to get messy. I’ll have to play around with this equation and see what I can come up with. And so begins my journey to find the polyamorous polynomial.
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