With so few role models for polyamorous parenting available in the media or most people’s direct experience, it can be a challenge to know how to be an effective parent in a polyamorous family. After studying polyamorous families with children for more than 20 years, I have identified a few things that contribute to comfortable…
It’s early Sunday afternoon and my husband and I just got back from brunch. We went to a nice little bistro in our neighborhood that we like to visit often. It’s a quaint place. Our kind of place. The kind where most of the staff is tattooed. They dress all cool, in thrift store clothes…
Mainstream media is portraying greater variety in relationship structures and orientations all the time. We are seeing shows like Sister Wives, Polyamory: Married and Dating, House of Cards, Girls, You-Me-Her, Brother Husbands, and Big Love, and features in major media outlets like the New York Times, CNN, NPR, BBC, The Guardian, and The Independent all…
Whenever “polyamory” becomes a topic of conversation there’s a lot of questioning about what type of person could actually be comfortable and fulfilled in such a relationship. All relationships are naturally complex but adding more partners and more love into the mix means you need some basic personal skills to succeed. In an effort to…
“To feel any of your emotions, you have to feel all of them. You can’t just feel the good ones.” – Nina Hartley, porn star Once upon a time there was a beautiful Princess named Polly and she was married to the very handsome Prince Paul. They had been married about 6 years and, feeling…
Polyamory Definitions What do all of these polyamory terms mean? These polyamory definitions will help you better understand what polyamorists are talking about. Asexual A person who is asexual either does not experience sexual desire or, experiences them, but they don’t have a “target”. When we talk about sexual orientation it is often in terms…