Laura Boyle3 days ago2 minPodcast Season 2 Episode 5: Polyamory: Married and Dating Episodes 4-7"Remind me not to go to any of YOUR soirées." In today's episode Laura and Corwin tear apart the tropes and stereotypes in the second hal...
Laura Boyle7 days ago5 minBoundaries are for EveryoneWe talk a lot about boundaries in the context of partnerships or our metamours (and making sure we have the degree of closeness or lack t...
Laura BoyleJan 162 minPodcast Season 2 Episode 4: Off Escalator Relationships"I mean, really I just want to scream it from the rooftops that I love these humans - that's my important thing." The Relationship Escala...
Laura BoyleJan 156 minBreakups in PolyamoryWe’ve been talking quite a bit about avoiding breakups and fights and misunderstandings lately. Or at least, just sort of touching the ed...
Laura BoyleJan 135 minCommunication for ComprehensionIf “communicate, communicate, communicate” is the polyamorous secret handshake, or our motto, or whatever it’s become now - it’s useless ...
Laura BoyleJan 92 minPodcast 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 BoyleJan 72 min...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 l...
Laura BoyleJan 62 minDating Asexual PartnersI was asked about dating asexual partners in an email after we briefly mentioned in the first episode of season 2 of the podcast that pol...
Laura BoyleJan 43 minWalking Through ShadowI 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 BoyleJan 22 minPodcast Season 2 Episode 2: HierarchyDr. Liz Powell and Laura discuss Prescriptive, Descriptive, and Sneaky Hierarchies - as well as a bunch of jokes, sight gags, Dr. Liz's N...
Laura BoyleJan 13 minOuroboros Polycule Meets New Partner of A Member at Local MunchDateline: Thursday Evening, Q4, 2021. Local events have resumed and the community is rejoicing over meeting in public again. It feels lik...
Laura BoyleDec 30, 20203 minWhy 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 BoyleDec 28, 20202 minIs 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 princ...
Laura BoyleDec 26, 20202 minSeason 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 years...
Laura BoyleDec 22, 20203 minPolyamory and HolidaysIf 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, non...
Laura BoyleDec 18, 20203 minChosen FamilyCultivating chosen family can be one of the best things about polyamory - in my informal, ask all my friends about it, 2020-was-wild-so-n...
Laura BoyleDec 15, 20203 minLove is a VerbThe number one truth of 2020 - for all its complications, shelter-in-places, personal struggles for me, national struggles for America (w...
Laura BoyleDec 15, 20202 minHear 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 ride...
Laura BoyleDec 11, 20203 minFeelings, Rules, and HierarchyThe underlying basis of a hierarchical system of relationships is, essentially, a power imbalance in those relationships - the “higher up...
Laura BoyleDec 7, 20203 minThe Difference Between Concerns and DemandsIf 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 gene...