Metamours: A Lot Like Sharing a Best Friend
“You should be on the podcast we’re gonna do!” I say to Gull. She’s one of the most poly-friendly monogamous people I know. And she’s… Read More »Metamours: A Lot Like Sharing a Best Friend
“You should be on the podcast we’re gonna do!” I say to Gull. She’s one of the most poly-friendly monogamous people I know. And she’s… Read More »Metamours: A Lot Like Sharing a Best Friend
Welp. It had to happen. I’m in full-blown meta love with Sika. I met her 4 or 5 years ago through a mutual friend. And… Read More »You Have to Fall in Love with Metamours
I’ve seen amazing relationship systems, where people were happy, things were harmonious — and everyone in them suffered mostly from a kind of “pinch me” syndrome.
In today’s Advice Friend column, a reader asks, “Is selecting partners to be monogamous the same process as choosing them when you know you’re going to be polyamorous? If it’s different, how so?”
Some people tear down the people around them so that they can look impressive in comparison. They’re willing to clear-cut the forest if it means they can be the tallest tree.
Happy 5th birthday, Poly Land!
Five years of daily posts. Thank you for being part of this wonderful project.
I recently went over 439 unfinished drafts from the past 4-5 years and finished or deleted them. How many did I keep? How many did I delete?
If freaking racecar drivers can share so seamlessly, there’s hope for the rest of us, I say.
Good communication alone isn’t what makes a happy relationship. After a certain point, there are other factors that come into play.
In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of… Read More »Liminality Is the Hardest Part