My Journey To Polyamory… And Back
There are two main reasons why people in monogamous relationships decide they are polyamorous: Some critical component is missing in...
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REDEFINING LOVE
My thoughts on non-monogamy,
polyamory, and open marriage
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- Aug 1, 2020
- 3 min
What It Takes For A Non-Monogamous Relationship To Survive
Since my husband and I decided to open our marriage, I’ve been paying extra close attention to the progression of relationships of our...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 5 min
Separation Anxiety In The Age Of Coronavirus
After a few post-date withdrawals, I developed some tactics for working through the onslaught of difficult feelings.
- Feb 29, 2020
- 3 min
Grandma's Wisdom: Date Other People, It's Good For Your Marriage
We were having dinner at my parents house when my husband asked my grandma how she felt about grandpa's thirst for adventure and constant...
- Dec 17, 2019
- 4 min
Why I Have To Hide From The World That I Am Polyamorous
I have to hide this huge most loving part of me from most of the world, because seeing it as it is would make most of the world...
- Oct 30, 2019
- 4 min
Is Veto Ever The Right Choice?
In her research article, Anne-Laure Le Cunff defines veto as an agreement in polyamorous relationships that gives one person the power to...
- Sep 6, 2019
- 4 min
How I Fell In Love With My Body
Something interesting happened to me recently… I fell in love with my body. When I was growing up I was an awkward, lanky preteen with...
- Aug 1, 2019
- 3 min
What Makes A Relationship Successful?
My dad has a theory that a relationship can only be successful when these four elements are present
- Jun 2, 2019
- 5 min
What It's Like To Be A Poly Introvert
I have a confession to make: I am an introvert. Vocabulary.com defines an introvert as someone who prefers solitary activities and who...
- May 21, 2019
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What Polyamory Is NOT
Many poly bloggers, myself included, have attempted to explain what polyamory really is. But many people still don't get what it's not.
- May 7, 2019
- 5 min
How I Learned To Love Myself Through Opening To Loving Many
There was no concept of self-love where I grew up. Forget self-love, feelings just wasn't something people talked about. I don't remember...
- Mar 26, 2019
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To Date Or Not To Date, That Is The Question: The “No Dating Friends” Rule in Polyamory
The topic of dating friends has come up quite a bit for me recently. In fact, it surfaced multiple times just in the last week in...
- Mar 20, 2019
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5 Ways Open Marriage Has Positively Affected Our Children
When my husband and I decided to open up our marriage our kids were about 4 and 6 years old. I was worried about how our lifestyle would...
- Feb 8, 2019
- 3 min
A Night to Remember: #ThunderFromDownUnder With My Partner's Other Partners
Last Tuesday night was officially the funnest night of 2019! I went to see the Thunder From Down Under show with my partner's other...
- Jan 15, 2019
- 4 min
How I Helped My Husband Set Up His Online Dating Profile on OKCupid.com
It took me close to a year to decide to try online dating after we opened up our marriage. It took my husband six months longer... not...
- Jan 7, 2019
- 3 min
Are there personality traits that are more common among people in polyamorous relationships?
Lately I’ve been crossing paths with quite a few polyamorous people as more and more friends have been coming out as poly and introducing...
- Dec 18, 2018
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We have a choice: monogamy is not the only option
...A story about how I stopped following societal norms While growing up, I was constantly reminded of what an ideal relationship should...
- Dec 12, 2018
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Is it possible to be polyamorous and have an anxious attachment style?
According to WIkipedia, attachment theory was primarily studied in the context of children and parents in the 1960s and 1970s. In the...
- Nov 25, 2018
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Your Partner's Other Partner: Friend or Foe?
There is a great side-benefit to having multiple romantic partners: you might make new friends with your partners' other partners (also...
- Nov 9, 2018
- 4 min
Let's talk about balance in (polyamorous) relationships
When we decided to open our marriage my husband started dating someone almost right away. For a while I had a crush on a guy that I...
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Polyamory (Greek πολύ poly, "many, several", Latin amor, "love") is the practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships with more than one partner, with the consent of all partners involved.
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