Results for: polyamory
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Queer Sex Coven: A Relationship Format Tarot Spread
Pull a card to see which relationship format is right for you.
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10 Non-Confrontational Gifts For Your Girlfriend’s Other Partner
Need a gift that says, “Don’t worry — I’m a great communicator and navigating non-monogamy in a culture that privileges monogamous partnerships is totally easy for me?” Never fear!
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Poly Pocket: Polyamory and Recovery
How a a 28-year-old white genderfluid bisexual in recovery from an eating disorder/anxiety/depression does polyamory.
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You Need Help: Navigating Aggression, Desire and Gender in Dating
You don’t need to measure up to any of the things you’ve been taught are the “right” ways to be as a sexual being. There is no way to do sexuality “right” by any objective, external standard.
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You Need Help: Your Potential Throuple Turned Into a Couple and Someone’s Feeling Left Behind
“If y’all are close friends, you might want to make this sacrifice/compromise to preserve the friendship. Generally speaking, friends are more important than lovers, depending on how close of a friend they are.”
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Five Poly People on Navigating Jealousy in Any Type of Relationship
Everyone gets jealous. It’s how you handle it that counts.
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Starstruck: What Your Moon Sign Says About Your Romantic Compatibility
The moon governs your emotions, habits, and instincts. When it comes to relationships, this is important! Your moon is how you are emotional. It’s how you express your tender little queer heart!
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These Two Factors Make You More Likely To Be Into Non-Monogamy
More people than ever are in non-monogamous relationships, and new research sheds light on what factors make people — and specifically queer people — more likely to be into them.
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Poly Pocket: If You Don’t Take Care Of Yourself, It Just Doesn’t Work
“I have a relationship to myself first. If that relationship isn’t solid and healthy I’m not good with anyone.”
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Poly Pocket: Balancing Comfort and Desire
How a 23-year-old bisexual polyamorous nonbinary femme xicanx in two very loving relationships does poly.
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Poly Pocket: The Communication Cushion
Here’s how a 28-year-old Arab-American queer demisexual cis woman living in the urban Midwest does ethical non-monogamy.
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Poly Pocket: Queer, Poly, Living On A Boat
“Boats have also been incredibly healing for me and have really helped me create better relationships in all parts of my life. They make me work harder to maintain my friendships, be better at communication, and generally just better at existing around all different kinds of people.”
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Poly Pocket: Dreaming of a World With Less Fear, More Vulnerability As A Black Trans Queer Person
“I view polyamory as a structure that’s helpful in me decolonizing my love life and the way I view relationships. Having complete ownership of everything within the borders of my skin, and doing what I desire with it and with whom, is an incredible “fuck you” to the systems of oppression I seek to dismantle (and a fun one!).”
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Poly Pocket: Polyamorous In A Monogamous Relationship
Here’s how a 32-year-old Japanese American queer polyamorous Southern Californian does polyamory within functional monogamy.
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Poly Pocket: It’s Not The Structure, It’s The People
How a newly-into-ladies 32-year-old multiracial cis queer lady in a big blue city in the deep red American South does poly.
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Poly Pocket: When Family and Friends Just Don’t Get It
“Family and friends tend to recognize her and her boyfriend and pretend that I don’t exist, mostly because they have been together longer and queer relationships are not respected or recognized.”
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Nobody Can Go Through This World Alone
In the spirit of gathering our strength and resisting the living hell out of these next four years, I bring you our sweetest installment to date — along with some notes for the revolution.
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Poly Pocket: Gray Ace, Bi & Poly
“Being queer, Asian-American, femme, and gray ace — this is my identity and I get to choose what that means to me.”
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Poly Pocket: Being As Direct As Possible
Here’s how a 23-year-old native and Jewish queer trans woman with Cerebral Palsy living in Baltimore and dating a few people does poly.
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Poly Pocket: Solo Poly Without Hierarchy
“Not leaning into change is a lot like staring at your house while it’s on fire.”