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thelostgirl21 · 9 months

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The most frustrating aspect of watching "Manifest", for me, is that...

...you have at the very least two obviously polyamorous characters trying to force themselves into a monogamous lifestyle!

Michaela Stone has genuine romantic feelings and emotional intimacy with both Jared Vasquez and Zeke Landon... But no! She's gotta choose just one.

WHY. THE. FUCK.

Grace Stone genuinely fell in love with another man and moved on after her husband died. But when he miraculously shows up 5 years later, understandingly, there are two people that she's developed romantic and deeply emotionally intimate feelings for suddenly coexisting in her life!

Again, she's forced to choose just one.

What's worse is that this man also became a bit of a father (or, at least, uncle) figure in her daughter's life, and they were forming a family together.

But the man that she fell in love with after her husband went missing is suddenly kicked out of the family just because... the other returned from the dead?!

How is this okay?!

How is this right?!

How can you justify cruelly excluding someone from your life, your heart, and your family just because you have the capacity to also love someone else?!

And how can the guy that comes back from the dead be fine with the idea of putting another human being through that level of rejection, and kicking him out of the family?!

Don't get me wrong, I love that show, but every time the inane "love triangle" dramas were showing up on screen, I got so frustrated yelling "PLEASE SOMEONE SIT THOSE RIDICULOUS IDIOTS DOWN, AND EDUCATE THEM ABOUT POLYAMORY!" to the screen!

#Manifest #Michaela Stone #Jared Vasquez #Zeke Landon #Grace Stone #Ben Stone #Danny #Seriously Danny was just so sweet and he seemed to have developed such a beautiful and healthy relationship with both Grace and Olive...#The whole Jared/Zeke situation was more complex but they got to a point where Jared eventually worked out his own issues and was shown as #being able to put his own needs and wants aside to focus on Michaela's happiness and just being there and supportive because he loves her #It's always been implied that although he also loves Drea he still loves Michaela so even he shouldn't be forced to have to choose #between both!#Michaela could be married with Zeke and Jared could be in a relationship with Drea with Michaela and Jared still spending time #being intimate with each other and loving each other for frak's sake!#They don't have to live together and form an exclusive couple for them to remain romantically and sexually involved!#Or they could even buy a bigger house all four of them #You have those multi-generational homes for frak's sake so why couldn't you have those multi-couples homes?#Michaela and Drea are partners and used to rely on each other and work together!#If they can solve crime together and have each other's back #Don't tell me they wouldn't be able to figure out how to make it work #Stop treating amorous relationships like some territory or resource that needs to be possessively hoarded and respect and embrace the love #that is there as what it is.#Love #Zeke and Jared #and Drea and Michaela #can love and respect each other platonically and be non-romantic and non-sexual partners...#While Michaela is romantically/sexually involved with Zeke and Jared.#And Jared is romantically/sexually involved with Drea and Michaela.#And pretty sure if these four were not obsessively trying to go by society's standards and what they've been conditioned to think are the #only right forms of relationship

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