We’ve been talking quite a bit about avoiding breakups and fights and misunderstandings lately. Or at least, just sort of touching the...

If “communicate, communicate, communicate” is the polyamorous secret handshake, or our motto, or whatever it’s become now - it’s useless...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

Dr. Liz Powell and Laura discuss Prescriptive, Descriptive, and Sneaky Hierarchies - as well as a bunch of jokes, sight gags, Dr. Liz's...

Dateline: Thursday Evening, Q4, 2021. Local events have resumed and the community is rejoicing over meeting in public again. It feels...

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...

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...

"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...

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,...

Cultivating chosen family can be one of the best things about polyamory - in my informal, ask all my friends about it,...

The number one truth of 2020 - for all its complications, shelter-in-places, personal struggles for me, national struggles for America...

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...

The underlying basis of a hierarchical system of relationships is, essentially, a power imbalance in those relationships - the “higher...

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...

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...

This post is inspired by the fact that, upon giving myself permission to post a little less here while I recovered from surgery, I...

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...