Couple Incompatibility
When social circles blend and you date within them, it can create complications.
Topic
Dating friends
Are friends of partners off limits? How do you navigate fears around your partner dating your friends? These are the entries about dating friends.
Episode 102: Clear Communication
Your partner comes home from a date and needs reassurance, but you can’t give it in that moment. Is this something to overcome?
Episode 88: One Rule to Rule Them All
Sometimes making a rule causes the exact problem that the rule is designed to prevent.
Episode 86: No Exes as Friends
Your new partner demands you stop being friends with an ex during grief. Is now the time to push back on the ultimatum?
Episode 83: Recycled Dates
Navigating non-monogamy: Your partner wants to recycle dates from past relationships, but you want experiences to feel fresh and new together.
Episode 82: Dating Metamours
Your partner is dating someone you're also dating, but you never agreed to be a triad. Now everyone's acting like you are one—and it feels off.
Episode 79: Outside Veto
Your partner wants to explore non-monogamy but you're monogamous—and now you're wondering if you've somehow failed them by not being enough.
Episode 75: Overreacting
Your partner says you're overreacting to their jokes. How do you know if your concerns are actually valid?
Honest from the beginning
Reconnecting with an old flame and catching feelings, but he doesn't know you're polyamorous. Should you tell him now or wait?
Episode 74: Dating Friendly
You're setting a "no dating friends" rule to feel safer in polyamory, but is that rule actually protecting you — or just limiting your options?