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Managing difficult emotions

Polyamory isn’t always pretty and it can sometimes bring a lot of emotional turmoil. People struggling with mental health issues may be especially struggling. Here are all the entries around managing your emotions.

Episode 65: No Longer Primary

How do you force yourself out of apathy if you feel the partner you want to settle down with is slipping away? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: How has your ideal lifestyle changed over time? Listen below. You can also find

Episode 64: What Rules to Have

Will the rules you want to put in place prevent what you think they will prevent? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: If you could pick to either read your partner’s mind or have them read yours, which would you pick?

Episode 63: Visualising Your Partner

What if you can’t see your partner with someone else in your head without feeling terrible? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: What is one thing that you didn’t get as a child that you want to now have as

Rules about love

My partner and I got married recently, which in these COVID-19 times was amazing! A month before the wedding however he said that he would like to start exploring non-monogamy separately. In the past we would explore together or under the same roof. I agreed and We spoke about acceptable

Episode 61: PTSD and Polyamory

A previous abusive experience of a polyam relationship is causing floods of emotions on your second try. Should you stop? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: If I knew I couldn’t fail in my professional life, I would like to try

Episode 58: Sexual Incompatibility

After more than a decade, your partner wants to open up because he’s not happy, but you think things are going too fast. What do you do? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: How much detail do you want to know?

Episode 57: Begging For Time

You’ve started in a new triad but you’re feeling like the third wheel and no one is spending time with you. What do you do? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: What is a gift you’ve been given that’

How to ask for reassurance

Much of the advice I have seen about dealing with jealousy in polyamorous relationships involves telling your partner so that you can communicate about it. When I tell my long term partner I am jealous of him and his girlfriend it makes him very sad, and he begins to avoid

Getting over a partner's sexual history

I am 34 years old, female and since more than 10 years I am in an open relationship with my boyfriend. We follow the concept of a “primary relationship” (so most of our daily life we live like a monogamous couple) but we are free to have external sexual contacts.

Episode 52: Anxious After Marriage

Anxiety can often become so overwhelming that you begin thinking non-monogamy just isn't for you. That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: What is your ideal living situation? With or without partners? How would you organise your space? Listen below. You