But you can't accurately judge the risks. How do you know that the risks and rewards of monamory aren't generally worse/less than the risks and rewards of polyamory? There's no data supporting that theory.
If anything, I think the only model that can be used is one where we say that every relationship, when considered individually, has the same "chance" of failure due to the usual circumstances. I will grant that there is a possibility of complexity arising from interactions between the people in the multiple relationships, but if we just treat the relationships as separate objects that don't directly affect each other (or all people don't interact with each other - which is a perfectly reasonable scenario) then it seems to me that in fact the chances of a person being in a good relationship at any given time are increased! In other words, you could roll one d6 and try to get a 6... or you could roll 3d6 and try to get a 6. There's a better chance of getting a 6 with more dice, that just seems obvious to me.
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If anything, I think the only model that can be used is one where we say that every relationship, when considered individually, has the same "chance" of failure due to the usual circumstances. I will grant that there is a possibility of complexity arising from interactions between the people in the multiple relationships, but if we just treat the relationships as separate objects that don't directly affect each other (or all people don't interact with each other - which is a perfectly reasonable scenario) then it seems to me that in fact the chances of a person being in a good relationship at any given time are increased! In other words, you could roll one d6 and try to get a 6... or you could roll 3d6 and try to get a 6. There's a better chance of getting a 6 with more dice, that just seems obvious to me.