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Close relationships

Affinityʉۢ Attachmentʉۢ Bondingʉۢ Boyfriendʉۢ Casualʉۢ Cohabitationʉۢ Compersionʉۢ Concubinageʉۢ Consortʉۢ Courtshipʉۢ Divorceʉۢ Domestic partnershipʉۢ Dower, dowry, and bride priceʉۢ Familyʉۢ Friendshipʉۢ Girlfriendʉۢ Husbandʉۢ Infatuationʉۢ Intimacyʉۢ Jealousyʉۢ Limerenceʉۢ Loveʉۢ Marriageʉۢ Monogamyʉۢ Nonmonogamyʉۢ Passionʉۢ Pederastyʉۢ Platonic loveʉۢ Polyamoryʉۢ Polyfidelityʉۢ Polygamyʉۢ Psychology of monogamyʉۢ Relationship abuseʉۢ Relationship breakupʉۢ Romanceʉۢ Separationʉۢ Sexualityʉۢ Serial monogamyʉۢ Sexual orientationʉۢ Significant otherʉۢ Soulmateʉۢ Weddingʉۢ Widowhoodʉۢ Wife
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Compersion is a term used by practitioners of polyamory or swingers to describe the experience of taking pleasure when one’s partner is with another person. It was originally coined by the Kerista Commune in San Francisco since that term is used to describe one’s pain at a lover’s experiences with others.

Contents

• 1 Formal definitions
• 2 Related terms
• 3 References
• 4 See also
• 5 External links

Formal definitions

• PolyOz define compersion as “the positive feelings one gets when a lover is enjoying another relationship. Sometimes called the opposite or flip side of jealousy.” They comment that compersion can coexist with jealous feelings.

• The Polyamory society defines compersion to be “the feeling of taking joy in the joy that others you love share among themselves, especially taking joy in the knowledge that your beloveds are expressing their love for one another.”

Related terms

The adjective frubbly and the noun frubbles are sometimes used, in the poly community in the United Kingdom and the United States, to describe the feeling of compersion. These terms are more suited to cheerful, light-hearted conversation, and they are more grammatically versatile, for example: “I’m feeling all frubbly” and “Their relationship fills me with frubbles”.

References

1. ^ a b Polyamory Society Glossary. Retrieved on 2006-12-26.
2. ^ a b c PolyOz – Polyamory Resources Australia Inc. – RD Glossary
3. ^ Alexander, Steven. “Free love gets a fit of the wibbles”, Guardian Unlimited, 2005-04-04. Retrieved on 2006-07-05. 

See also

• Terminology within polyamory
• Jealousy
• Acceptance
• Mudita (Pali or Buddhist term for “sympathetic joy”)

External links

• The Polyamory Society’s Compersion Index
• polyoz.dhs.org

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