Season 3 Episode 10: Podcastiversary!
My podcast baby is a year old!! This week's episode was live in video on facebook live - and that's going to get shared maybe? at some...
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Laura Boyle
- Jun 10
- 2 min
A Hopeful View
You know how all the innovative, beautifully progressive-for-its-time art of 30 years ago is deeply cringey to rewatch now, if also...
Laura Boyle
- Jun 8
- 2 min
Belonging
June, and Pride, and the “who belongs at Pride and who doesn’t and why” discourse always gives me a big bundle of Feelings, with an...
Laura Boyle
- Jun 5
- 2 min
Season 3 Episode 9: Practical Solutions for Jealousy and FOMO
Jealousy is presented as the mind-killer in polyamory a lot of the time, but it's a presentation of all kinds of other emotions and...
Laura Boyle
- Jun 3
- 2 min
Not All Flags Are Bright Red
It’s not always so easy to see the problems coming in a relationship. We’re beginning to talk now about not just red flags, but green...
Laura Boyle
- Jun 1
- 3 min
Envy is Real
Envy, or FOMO (fear of missing out), or a subset of what we generally call jealousy, is undeniably real in polyamory. But it’s undeniably...
Laura Boyle
- May 29
- 1 min
Season 3 Episode 8: Labels
"You're nesting- like little birds!" Laura this week examines labels for relationships (rather than labels for self-identity) and how...
Laura Boyle
- May 27
- 4 min
Differing Opinions in a Polycule
Sometimes, when you’re coming up with an agreement or a rule that a hinge is going to have to apply in more than one relationship (say, a...
Laura Boyle
- May 25
- 3 min
Hard to Open, Hard to Close, and Hard to Send - Communication Styles
Some people (like yours truly) are talkers - they show interest by sharing the everyday and mundane in any format available to them...
Laura Boyle
- May 22
- 1 min
Season 3 Episode 7: Early Relationship Agreements
"I don't remember exactly what I was scared of, but I'm pretty sure it was younger, blonder, and prettier than me, at least." In today's...
Laura Boyle
- May 20
- 2 min
You Don't Have a Metamour Problem
And that title isn’t a Jedi mind trick. Nine times out of ten, your conflict “because of your metamour” isn’t actually a metamour...
Laura Boyle
- May 18
- 6 min
Triad Questions
I get asked questions about triads a lot. This is contributed to by several factors, I think. First, because a lot of mainstream media...
Laura Boyle
- May 15
- 1 min
Season 3 Episode 6: Polyamorous Breakups
"So, you know, I have to watch out for standard bad coping mechanisms like drinking too much and getting under someone to get over...
Laura Boyle
- May 14
- 3 min
Red Table Talk on Polyamory
On April 28, the popular Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk,” (a vehicle for Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Jada’s mother...
Laura Boyle
- May 12
- 6 min
Expectations of Connection
After traditional childhood and young adult milestones of high school and college and their attendant clubs, sports, fraternities,...
Laura Boyle
- May 10
- 3 min
Relationships Shouldn't Be That Hard
Here’s my ‘hot take’ - relationships aren’t that hard. The popular image of relationships as struggle and a desert or an ocean that you’d...
Laura Boyle
- May 8
- 1 min
Season 3 Episode 5: FWB and Play Partners
"You know, flowers and... I don't know, what's like a flower? Rose colored glasses?" As an expansion of last week's podcast, Laura...
Laura Boyle
- May 3
- 2 min
Season 3 Episode 4: Relationship Anarchy
"I feel like you're telling me a true story here-" Laura and David answer the important questions about application and theory of...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 30
- 1 min
Arlington, MA Recognizes 3+ Person Domestic Partnerships
On April 28, 2021, Arlington, MA joined its neighbors Somerville and Cambridge in allowing legal recognition of domestic partnership...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 27
- 3 min
Theory and Practice
One of the questions that people often ask each other early on in potential polyamrous relationships is “how do you do polyamory?” This...
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