This category offers clear education, simple tools, and grounded support for people who are exploring or practicing non-monogamy. These posts teach basic communication skills, show how to build strong relationship structures, explain how to work with jealousy, help you create agreements, guide you through changes, and break down the cultural messages that shape how we relate.
Sometimes I loooove words, and other times they drive me absolutely insane. The number of times I’ve been asked, “What’s the actual difference between polyamory, open relationships, and swinging?” Or someone brings up SLOWM and asks if that was polyamory vs open relationship vs swinging. And then, depending on the conversation, someone throws relationship anarchy…
Yep. There is, in fact, jealousy in open relationships. There’s jealousy in many different types of relationships — familial, professional, platonic. Jealousy is not an emotional experience exclusive to romantic/sexual connections. I’m now about twelve years (🤯) into running a polyamory-affirming practice, and many years into my own non-monogamous life, I can tell you the…
Table of Contents “How do I tell my parents I’m polyamorous?” is one of the questions I hear most often from non-monogamous clients, and it’s usually followed by, “Do I even need to?” Coming out as polyamorous or non-monogamous to friends and family is complicated in a way that’s hard to prepare for, because it…
Table of Contents You love your partner. Your partner loves you. But one of you wants non-monogamy and the other doesn’t. And now you’re both wondering: Can this actually work? If you’re in a mono/poly relationship, or considering one, you’re probably carrying a mix of love, fear, confusion, and maybe some grief you haven’t fully…
What can monogamous couples learn from non-monogamy? Well, monogamy is often treated as the default. It is rarely questioned, rarely discussed, and rarely examined with the same intention people bring to other aspects of their lives. You fall in love, you commit, and monogamy is assumed… unless someone explicitly names otherwise. However, when a relationship…
Our attachment style can help us better understand why we react (and how our partners react) the way we do in our relationships. This is an article expanding on the four attachment styles and how to figure out your attachment style. One disclaimer: This concept is a large psychological theory and while we’re doing our…
By Sara Cornwall Howdy! How’s it going? What’s that I hear? You wanna open up? You and your spouse/partner are thinking about “opening up” your monogamous relationship? Congratulations! What an exciting journey you are about to embark on. My ex-husband and I were once like you – so excited, so innocent, so wildly unprepared for…