By Lisa Bannon
My ideal relationship is one in which all facets of myself are seen and appreciated. I have always felt that girlfriends and boyfriends, wives and husbands, and all other people in relationships should ideally appreciate and see all aspects of their partners.
In the past, this has not always been true for me. I have been in relationships with women and men and, when I was young, girls and boys, who appreciated only one aspect of me. These relationships were, however, not my ideal.
I would also ideally like any woman or man I might date in the future to have her or his mind open to the possibility of a polyamorous relationship. I know it is an untrue stereotype that all bisexual people cannot be or do not want to be monogamous, but some bisexual people, including me, personally do feel that way. So ideally when someone dates me, I would want them to be willing to be polyamorous.
Most of all, my ideal relationship would be based on the idea that all women and men deserve to be treated equally, and that a wife and husband (or partners in any other kind of relationship, for that matter) should keep that firmly in mind and treat dreams of hers and his as equally important.
Lisa Bannon is an autistic bisexual woman who lives in Pennsylvania, in the U.S.