Trio Relationship

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Probably not.

I have no intrinsic problem with three-partner relationships and certainly don't judge them, but humans are hard-wired to pair bond. I live in a more conservative part of the world (culturally and politically), so that's a pressure point, but I personally haven't witnessed these relationships last more than a year. And when they end, they end hard, because a pair bond develops between two of the three, igniting conflict.

If you can make a stable trio work, go for it! I suspect it's a harder type of relationship to maintain over time, though. The give-and-take of personality matching and role balancing is hard enough with a two-variable equation; adding a third variable that must match both of the first two is an order of magnitude more difficult to pull off. The closest I've seen this relationship type work is among people demonstrating both high trait openness as well as high verbal acuity (for in-relationship negotiation and conflict mediation).