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Independence is important
In polyamory in general, independence and autonomy are important. If you’re in a couple that is trying to open up to polyamory for the...
Laura Boyle
Jul 8, 20202 min read
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Sometimes Your Emotions Are Hard
Not all self-discoveries are positive. Sometimes, the things you find about yourself when you’re self-examining that you need to work on....
Laura Boyle
Jul 6, 20205 min read
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Ready for Polyamory Podcast 4: Jealousy
Today's podcast is Episode 4 with Bella GreenWolf and Seva, talking about jealousy in polyamory and strategies to work through it....
Laura Boyle
Jul 4, 20201 min read
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Somerville, MA Expands Domestic Partnership
It's been reported everywhere from Wickedlocal to The New York Times, and I don't think I can turn on any form of social media without...
Laura Boyle
Jul 2, 20203 min read
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Your Family Doesn’t Need To Accept Polyamory
Your family doesn’t need to accept your non-monogamous truth for it to be true. That’s a complete statement. I would mic drop and walk...
Laura Boyle
Jul 1, 20203 min read
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Emotional Fringe Benefits of Multiple Partners - The Dark Side
On Friday, on the blog, we talked about the positives of having multiple partners - of spreading emotional loads across polycules and of...
Laura Boyle
Jun 29, 20202 min read
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Podcast Episode 3: Triads
Or, more accurately, Triads, Why They're Hard, and Why So Many People Want to Be In Them Anyway. It's a great conversation with one of my...
Laura Boyle
Jun 27, 20201 min read
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Emotional Fringe Benefits of Multiple Partners - The Light Side
I was talking with a friend recently and they were having a new benefit of their journey through polyamory. For the first time in a long...
Laura Boyle
Jun 25, 20203 min read
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Ethical Non-Monogamy
Polyamory is a subsection of the ethical non-monogamy umbrella. This umbrella is anywhere from large to massive, depending whose...
Laura Boyle
Jun 24, 20203 min read
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Assertive and Passive Communication
There’s a lot of factors that feed into successful relationship agreements, into feeling free to express yourself, into being...
Laura Boyle
Jun 22, 20203 min read
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Help Me Fill In The Right Maps
This post goes the long way round to get where it's going; bear with me, there's a reason for every bit of it. If you haven't noticed,...
Laura Boyle
Jun 17, 20205 min read
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Polyamory as an Orientation
So, one of the biggest repeated arguments in Polyamorous communities is whether it’s an orientation, like sexual orientations, or not. I...
Laura Boyle
Jun 15, 20204 min read
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Why Do I Bother To Write This Blog?
If it seems self-evident to you that we need an occasionally humorous, often educational, maybe too nuanced or niche some days source of...
Laura Boyle
Jun 12, 20204 min read
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Relationship Anarchy
This one gets a worse rep than it deserves for a couple reasons. First, people hear anarchy and think “oh gosh everything will collapse,”...
Laura Boyle
Jun 10, 20204 min read
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Chronic Illness, COVID-19, and Relationships
I didn’t really want to write about COVID-19 the first time, but I felt like it was a very large elephant in my very small room (and let...
Laura Boyle
Jun 8, 20205 min read
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Mary Shelley, Part III
As you’ll recall from Part I and Part II, Mary Shelley eloped at 16 with Percy Bysse Shelley, and (rather out of the ordinary) her...
Laura Boyle
Jun 5, 20205 min read
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Mary Shelley, Part II
Part I If you recall from last time, Mary Godwin has eloped with Percy Shelley, and become Mary Shelley as soon as his wife dies....
Laura Boyle
Jun 3, 20204 min read
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Mary Shelley Would Have Been Happier if She Had a Polyamorous Community
The author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, has a sordid personal life - or rather, her eventual husband and master of elopements and...
Laura Boyle
Jun 1, 20205 min read
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Rival Polyamorous Cult Leaders Engage in Fisticuffs at Local Event
Medium Size City, Northeastern State, USA - January 16, 2020 - A sight unseen in public in over five years, and unlikely to take place...
Laura Boyle
May 29, 20203 min read
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How Trying Polyamory Makes You A Teenager (Again)
(This list is intended to be humorous. If you think it’s a subtweet at you, then rejoice upon this phase in your journey and don’t look...
Laura Boyle
May 27, 20203 min read
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