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Communication for Comprehension
If “communicate, communicate, communicate” is the polyamorous secret handshake, or our motto, or whatever it’s become now - it’s useless...
Laura Boyle
Jan 13, 20215 min read
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Podcast Season 2 Episode 3: Love in the Time of COVID-19
"P.S.: I FOUND THE GUY!" I've used this subtitle before, but why be more creative than imitation when Gabriel García Márquez has already...
Laura Boyle
Jan 9, 20212 min read
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...and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Generally speaking, I try to keep the blog on topic, with the occasional digression to explain why someone else is going to write for a...
Laura Boyle
Jan 7, 20212 min read
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Dating Asexual Partners
I was asked about dating asexual partners in an email after we briefly mentioned in the first episode of season 2 of the podcast that...
Laura Boyle
Jan 6, 20212 min read
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Walking Through Shadow
I wrote a while back about how our partners can support us when we’re having our ‘darker’ emotions. I argued, in that post, that a lot of...
Laura Boyle
Jan 4, 20213 min read
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Podcast Season 2 Episode 2: Hierarchy
Dr. Liz Powell and Laura discuss Prescriptive, Descriptive, and Sneaky Hierarchies - as well as a bunch of jokes, sight gags, Dr. Liz's...
Laura Boyle
Jan 2, 20212 min read
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Ouroboros Polycule Meets New Partner of A Member at Local Munch
Dateline: Thursday Evening, Q4, 2021. Local events have resumed and the community is rejoicing over meeting in public again. It feels...
Laura Boyle
Jan 1, 20213 min read
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Why Do We Call It Polyamory?
If you listened to Season 2, Episode 1 of the podcast (or if you didn’t, but read the post under the Start Here! Tab on this blog; or if...
Laura Boyle
Dec 30, 20203 min read
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Is This a Hill I’m Really Willing to Die On?
So, I’ve talked about how fighting to win is, generally, fighting to lose - and because of that, there’s a strong corollary to that...
Laura Boyle
Dec 28, 20202 min read
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Season 2 Begins: Polyamory as a Catch-all for Ethical Non-monogamy
"One of those is your boyfriend, one of those is your husband, one is your best friend, and one has been your lover for the last 15...
Laura Boyle
Dec 26, 20202 min read
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Polyamory and Holidays
If this year feels like the worst time to be writing about this, well, it kind of is, but I’d like to give the ‘timeless’ or regular,...
Laura Boyle
Dec 22, 20203 min read
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Chosen Family
Cultivating chosen family can be one of the best things about polyamory - in my informal, ask all my friends about it,...
Laura Boyle
Dec 18, 20203 min read
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Love is a Verb
The number one truth of 2020 - for all its complications, shelter-in-places, personal struggles for me, national struggles for America...
Laura Boyle
Dec 15, 20203 min read
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye! An Announcement!
The Ready For Polyamory Podcast Season 2 is coming! The Ready For Polyamory Podcast Season 2 is coming! It's not quite Paul Revere's...
Laura Boyle
Dec 15, 20202 min read
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Feelings, Rules, and Hierarchy
The underlying basis of a hierarchical system of relationships is, essentially, a power imbalance in those relationships - the “higher...
Laura Boyle
Dec 11, 20203 min read
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The Difference Between Concerns and Demands
If you’ve been in a local polyamorous community for any length of time, you’ll have noted there are a few concepts that there’s some...
Laura Boyle
Dec 7, 20203 min read
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Introducing Partners to your Kids
This is one that has as many answers as there are stars in the sky, and takes a world of negotiation sometimes to balance different...
Laura Boyle
Dec 2, 20204 min read
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Google Calendar and You
This post is inspired by the fact that, upon giving myself permission to post a little less here while I recovered from surgery, I...
Laura Boyle
Nov 30, 20203 min read
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Negotiating Interactions with Metamours - A Practical Guide
You may recall from several months ago, I had a list of questions to ask when you’re dating while polyamorous. The idea of this list was...
Laura Boyle
Nov 10, 20205 min read
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The Closeted Polyamorous Folks
There’s a subset of the polyamorous community who aren’t able to be open about their romantic lives in one or many areas of the rest of...
Laura Boyle
Nov 3, 20203 min read
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