Quarantine As Affirmation

Krista Varela Posell
Poly in Place
Published in
3 min readMay 16, 2020

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How being separated from people I love has validated my identity

I don’t think there’s been a day that’s gone by where Brendan and I haven’t looked at each other and said, “I miss our people.”

More than anything, this quarantine has been a validation of our conversion to a polyamorous lifestyle (which was almost exactly a year ago, as of this writing). It’s not so much that one day we decided…

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Krista Varela Posell
Poly in Place

She/her. Queer Latina Dachshund mom. Lover of words & humans. Essays in The Bold Italic & Polyamory Today. Co-creator of Poly in Place.