I really debated whether to write and post this. First, because I wanted to try to make my posts mostly useful forever, or at least...

Or, a brief examination of sexual and emotional jealousy and the ways polyamorous people are not immune to them Polyamorous people are...

In this last part of our Kitchen Table to Parallel Polyamory series, we’re looking at the extreme end of the parallel part of the...

We went through a lot of theory in Part 6 of this series - and very little in the way of stories and practical examples. A lot of that...

Rather than focusing on a polycule, today, we’re going to focus on how a pair of dyad relationships, each involving one common person,...

Most extended constellations or big polycules are actually a mix of kitchen table and parallel polyamorous styles. You hit a point where...

Today, we have the basic idea of Kitchen Table Polyamory: being friendly among all of each other’s partners that could sit and have a cup...

Beyond the basic idea of having a cup of coffee at the kitchen table, people’s idea of “kitchen table polyamory” can vary widely. When...

If we see entwinement of a specific relationship in a network as a spectrum, on one end we have Extreme Kitchen Table; the...

Today's post introduces an eight post series on the spectrum of parallel and kitchen table polyamory. There are wonderful, healthy...

“Fluid Bonding” or “Fluid Bonded” is a phrase used to indicate that a partner or a part of a network exchanges bodily fluids through...

If you don’t get my extremely dated reference, that man is a character from one of the first police procedurals, the 1950s Dragnet, Joe...

While polyamory is definitely not all about sex, sexual contact is part of many, if not most, romantic relationships. As a result,...

The concept of the relationship escalator has existed for as long as modern nuclear families, but the term was coined in 2012, when Amy...

These are important questions to think about if you haven’t, and to include your answers and get your potential partners’ answers in...

Last time we were discussing the formation of relationship agreements, we were talking about people who were coming to polyamory...

Valentine’s Day times 2; 14+14, February 28, has been declared Metamour’s Day, and it seems to be being taken up by the community in...

...some agreements need to be made about how you're changing your relationship. I realized the strategies I want to present for helping...

The central tenet of polyamory, and of all ethical non-monogamy, is “Make agreements within your relationships, and stick to them.” Some...

There were religiously-based forms of non-monogamy, ethical and otherwise, from the dawn of time to the present. Christopher Ryan and...