Switching back to monogamy
I'm new to polyamory, as I'm sure many of the people who contact you are, and i feel like im in a bit of a hard place right now.
I’ve been seeing my amazing partner for just under a year now and while shes had
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Lack of polyamorous family role models?
Hi there! I am a 31 year old that identifies as female, bisexual, and kinky. I have a primary partner, as well as a secondary partner and a play partner that I see very occasionally.
My dilemma is this — I really want to start a family in the next 1–
9 strategies for counteracting toxic parenting in non-monogamy
In a previous article, I talked about nine different ways that toxic parenting can impact the communication you have in non-monogamy. For Valentine’s Day, I wanted to spend this article talking about specific strategies to combat these problems both from my own personal experience and the experiences I’ve
Can you turn infidelity into polyamory?
My spouse and I have been together for 18 years this year. Last August, I was pushed into a sceneries I didn’t think I’d ever find myself in. He had met a woman and wanted to either open our marriage, [o]r have a triad. (We had had
See-sawing feelings in polyamory
About three months ago, I started seeing a girl (let’s call her Jenny) who I knew through a mutual friend (I’m a cis straight man, she’s a cis bi girl, neither of us have any prior experience with non-monogamous dating) with the understanding that we would stay
Telling a crush that you’re polyamorous
How do I bring up that I’m polyamorous to someone I met outside of a polyamorous space who may or may not have ever thought about polyamory before? It’s a guy who I’m crushing on, who I think is crushing on me, too, but I haven’t
Non-monogamy without the turmoil
I am in an eight year relationship that has been mostly monogamous. The past few years we started dabbling in opening up but initially with the idea that we would never “go all the way”. We started reading the books and meeting lots of people in various non-monogamous relationships and
Feeling valued in non-monogamy
How do I feel special when things I share with my partner are also shared with her other partner?
The reason I titled this blog ‘valued’ is because, in essence, I think that when we talk about the special things we do with romantic partners, we’re meaning that the
Stagnating vs. relationship escalator
I’m currently married to a wonderful man and in a relationship with a lovely boyfriend for the last eighteen months. This is my first foray into a serious relationship outside of my primary relationship, although I’ve been open with my husband since the start. I’m struggling a
9 ways toxic parenting impacted your non-monogamy
When reading the opening preface of a self-help book makes you cry, that’s when you buy the book.
And that happened to me twice when I read the forward of both Stop Walking on Eggshells and Toxic Parents. Reading these and several other books were the beginnings of me