Polyamory

We had a speaker today, on polyamory.
Poly = many
Amory = love
Or many loves. And to be honest, some of it made sense to me. I don't think I could be capable of having a physical relationship with someone else, knowing that they are involved sexually with someone else. But a different part of it made sense to me. The idea of having multiple intimate relationships. The idea that you do in fact, have other people that you are very emotionally and intimately tied to, because not one person can fulfill every single need that you have. Does that make me a poly person? I don't know. But I do know that I have friends of the same sex that I am very closely attached to. My relationship with them is an integral part of my heart, and who I am. No person I am romantically involved with is going to change that. Because I love them, with all of my heart and being. And I cannot date someone who has an issue with that. So what does that make me?