Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Sept 5, 2015 22:36:35 GMT 5.5
I discovered this interesting term "mate poach" in a Psychology Today post today. I have quoted the passage in which the term appears:
The basic idea: If we’re already romantically attached, someone else has to be quite attractive to get our attention—more attractive, in fact, than if we were single. In other words, our standards change. If we’re being pursued as an unattached individual we might be more flexible in our standards than if someone’s trying to mate poach us, or steal us from a current partner.