Season 5, Episode 6: Solo Polyamorous Living
"Solopolyamory flies in the face of this idea that if you love someone you'll want to be with them 24/7. It's just not true. We're here...
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Laura Boyle
- May 9
- 6 min
Queerplatonic Relationships: Polybromantic, much?
I was texting with a good friend of mine last week, and he started describing some of his relationships, and how they weren't precisely...
Laura Boyle
- May 5
- 2 min
Podcast Season 5 Episode 5: Mono plus Polyam Relationships
"In this structure now, I have been able to figure out who I am and what I want. That isn't to say I haven't gone on dates - I've tried...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 28
- 2 min
Podcast Season 5 Episode 4: Polyamory and Kink
Today's episode contains frank discussion of sexuality and kink dynamics, listener be aware. "I feel like no one really talks about the...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 26
- 2 min
Why Say Telemour?
A telemour, for those of you not familiar with the term, is a partner of your metamour who is not the shared one between you. (If you're...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 21
- 1 min
Podcast Season 5 Episode 3: Change and Balance in your CNM Ecosystem
"Nothing I do ever goes viral, but one of my posts that did pretty well recently said 'I want my polyamory to be less about compersion...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 18
- 9 min
Polyamorous Time: Needs and Expectations
Over on TikTok in March, we had a conversation about "Polyamorous Time" - about the deviation from monogamous norms about enmeshing all...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Podcast Season 5 Episode 2: Polyamory Advice is Relationship Advice
"I'm relationship style agnostic - I don't think there's one right way to do relationships, but gosh are there a lot of really crappy...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Forbearance
It is an absolute truism in polyamory that communication is everything - and for good reason, none of us are mind readers and only by...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 7
- 2 min
Podcast Season 5 Episode 1: Polyamory and Parenting
"You have to take the space to take care of yourself and notice if you haven't made space for yourself outside of parenthood in a long...
Laura Boyle
- Apr 4
- 3 min
Priorities and Values
We've talked a lot on the blog about hierarchies, implied, presumed, explicit, prescriptive and descriptive. The underlying message of...
Laura Boyle
- Mar 31
- 6 min
Why De-escalation?
The polyamorous community at large (this blog included) talks a fair bit about de-escalating relationships and how the option to change...
Laura Boyle
- Mar 28
- 4 min
Lap-Sitting Polyamory
What is Lap-Sitting Polyamory? Lap-sitting polyamory is the form of polyamory that this blog previously called "kitchen table polyamory...
Laura Boyle
- Mar 22
- 9 min
Practical Tips for Going Parallel with Your Metamour
Many of us, in the course of our polyamorous journeys, will have a metamour who we just don't vibe with - who things sit just a little...
Laura Boyle
- Mar 15
- 2 min
Differentiating Dynamics
Do you prefer walks on the beach with one partner, and hikes with another? Do you like piña coladas? ...The point of this line of...
Laura Boyle
- Mar 10
- 4 min
Barriers, "Fluid Bonding," and Other Conversations
I don't love the term "fluid bonding." It's in common enough use that I don't pretend it isn't there or correct a partner to some other...
Laura Boyle
- Mar 7
- 3 min
What's in a Name? Polyamorous Jargon
In doing online education, I've spent a lot of time talking with people about "all those polyamorous words" and whether we need them and...
Laura Boyle
- Mar 1
- 11 min
Guest Post: Is There a Problem with Hierarchy?
As many of my writing pieces do, this one germinated from a seed planted in a conversation with Laura. I started my first polyamorous...
Laura Boyle
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Metamour's Day 2022
As I remind people every year, February 28 is our own polyamorous hallmark holiday: Metamour's Day! Metamour is one of the pieces of...
Laura Boyle
- Feb 21
- 7 min
Veto Power
Despite veto power in relationships being one of the most-often-discussed rules that folks come up with for their early polyam...
