[Defeat]

If you're young, just stay single and enjoy yourself, 9.9/10 poly will have you fucked up, it's unnatural.

I feel like it's unnatural, and an excuse to live out a fantasy. That's my opinion though. Your life, your decision.

This is the narrative I'm trying to challenge though, why is a committed polycule implicitly any more "unnatural" or unstable compared to a Western, Catholic and State influenced, life partner monogamous relationship?

I can't refer to any documents right this moment, but my friend did a nice presentation on it, but it seems like splitting partners and having children is where the true havoc comes in because more often than not, not only do the partner(s) get jealous and feel devalued but so do the younger children ruining their lives in the process. The research seems to go dodgy due to limitations, but this article seems to do a neat overview.

If it's outside marriage and no children are involved, why commit to the titles (partner, bf/gf, etc...). I'm a huge Kevin Gates fan and his marriage is interesting because it seems to be decent, but I think there a very few that can manage to separate sex, feelings and love (usually the downfall it seems). I know I can't personally, but to each their own.