[pyrogen]

Would all of y'all be so up in arms about Steve Pavlina and his choice if he were just some other forum contributor?

You're treating him as a guru. He is not a guru. If I had the time to look over every single of his posts, I could find the posts where he's said not to follow gurus or religions.

You do not have to do everything Steve does. Where's the power in that? You're just being a lemming. Stop it.

How would you react if you simply decided that Steve is a human being entitled to his own journey of discovery?

I don't agree with the poly thing. FOR ME. Know what? That's ok. I am not Steve, Steve is not me, and his polyness has nothing to do with me.

For every polyamorist in the New Thought/New Age subculture there is probably one subscriber to the other New Age relationship model... which is the conscious monogamist, new age ideal life mate, business partner, co author, co lecturer, conscious couple.

I'm guessing that those of you disappointed in him probably were conscious monogamy subscribers who upheld Steve and Erin as one of your 'New Age Soulmate Business-partner co-author Conscious Couples' as an example for you to follow and now you have lost one of your role models.

If Steve and Erin had been poly, and they suddenly closed their relationship, the other half of you would be just as weirded out by it.

When I was a kid, I went to the snow with my dad, and walked in the pre-made footprints of other people. I wanted to follow him up the hill, but there weren't any footprints heading that way. I said, "I have to walk in the steps."
He said, "make your own steps".

That stuck with me. MAKE YOUR OWN STEPS!

I think Steve has some good ideas. I don't agree with everything he writes. That's fine. I don't have to. I'm not going to project my own ideas of perfect guru behavior onto Steve. He's not blogging about YOUR polyamory, he's blogging about his. Stop it.