Have you ever loved more than one person at once?

In this question about people’s experience with promiscuity, most people seemed to take that to be about sex, not love. I’m a person who has a great deal of difficulty separating sex and love. I don’t think sex is love, but it is a part of love and if it is missing, then, for me, the love is incomplete. Of course, others see it differently.

When I was in my twenties, I believed I could love more than one person at once. I think I did. But it’s not a model that is acceptable in the American culture, so I never took it very far and ended up being monogamous. But I still believe I could do it.

This question is for those who have had this experience and are willing to talk about it. What is your thinking about this? What is your philosophy about love and jealousy and communication? How do you sustain that philosophy in a culture that demonizes people who behave as if love is inexhaustible?