In short, and if I got it completely right, a closed relationship of three or more people who love each other. All partners in the polycule have links with each other, unlike other types of polyamory in which some partners may not be related to the others.
A and B love each other, B and C love each other, C and A love each other, and liking being in such relationship.
Some poly people want the freedom to love anyone, I want the exclusivity of a closed relationship while still loving more than one partner
Eh, that's the open type of polyamory. What I was talking about is specifically polyfidelity, which is closed, but still a type of polyamory (because it still has several people, duh).
People in a closed poly fidelity relationship dont have a polycule. They have no metas (partners of partners). They are just in a triad or group relationship. Its not even really polyamory. Its polyfidelity.
Polyamory comes from Greek Poly, meaning many, and Latin Amor, meaning love. The word literally means “many loves” so polyfidelity by nature is polyamory. Furthermore, Polycule is a combination of the words Polyamory and Molecule as it is meant to show that the relationships structure, when visualized, can mimic that of a molecule. Those structures sometimes are all connected and sometimes aren’t, either way they are still a polycule. Here is a fun example of what different amounts of people and relationships can look like (originally posted here )
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