Episode 96: Needing Distance After Dates
Your partner comes home from a date and needs reassurance, but you can’t give it in that moment. Is this something to overcome?
Topic
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.
When to open or close a relationship
My question is how to separate times where we are monogamous and times where we are not? Me and my boyfriend flew right into open relationship, and now I’m have doubts. I think I only want us to be having sexual encounters (no romantic) and I want us to
Episode 94: Clashing Triggers
It triggers you to open the relationship but it triggers your partner to close it. Is there any way to solve it?
Episode 92: Unclear Boundaries
Sometimes people are jerks and sometimes experiences help us learn when we can also step away.
Anxious to see interaction
I have been sleeping with my neighbour since Oct last year and a strong connection has grown. Neither of us is very vocal about our feelings and usually hide behind humour when we express these feelings, although, our actions consistently show high levels of mutual care and respect.
Our dynamic
Unclear communication
When reading through all the stories in managing difficult emotions i was wondering if i could share mine? Mostly because I have a lot of monogamous friends who constantly prove me right when I'm just scared and want to find a way to get over these feelings, maybe
Realistic emotional expectations
This may be way out there, but I'm currently struggling thru the beginning of my partner and I's attempt at non monogamy. We both wanted a hierarchical [polyamory] structure, but I quickly became overwhelmed with jealousy over everything. Because I have been feeling this way, he
Emotional sharing in polyamory
My husband and I have been open for a little over a year now. We closed for a period of time because he crossed multiple boundaries. I was the one to bring up being open. My issue right now is my partners unwillingness to really communicate. He claims he’s
Emotions are not demands
Do you have any constructive advice for someone loving with a Meta as a roommate? It's been uniquely difficult compared to previous relationships.
I am struggling with the amount of time my primary partner now spends with their new partner. My primary and I have been together monogamously
Unrealistic personal expectations
My wife [married for 11 years] and I have been ethically non monogamous for a while, mostly swingers. We’ve never had issues about being sexually open but those activities were always together, we never really looked separately, while it helped sort through some feelings that come with going off