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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 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

Episode 48: Too Much NRE

Is 18 months long enough to wait for someone to decide if polyamory is for them? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: What is your love language? Listen below. You can also find the podcast on Spotify, Apple, and other providers. https:

Episode 42: The Dreaded Veto

When you’ve conceded to many rules but your partner demands you dump another, what do you do? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: What do you most regret so far? Listen below. You can also find the podcast on Spotify, Apple,

Can you learn compersion?

I really enjoyed reading “Thirteen things I wish I’d learned before choosing non-monogamy.” I’ll start by saying I’ve started exploring my sexuality and what makes me happy just this June. So, I’m still learning. My original intent was not related to non-monogamous relationships at all. It

Curing codependency with polyamory

I was in a three-year monogamous relationship recently. I had an experience with the entheogen/psychedelic ayahuasca that helped me see that many of the issues in that relationship and all my previous relationships had roots in co-dependency. I realized that exploring ethical non-monogamy could be a powerful tool to

Episode 34: Afraid of Loss

Your partner is interested in polyamory (and so are you) but they are afraid of losing you. How do you move forward from that? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: Over the last five years, how do you think you have changed?

Episode 30: How to Not Care

If you’ve replaced your partner’s primary, how do you stop caring that you’ll be replaced too? That’s what’s on this week’s episode of Non-Monogamy Help. Discussion Topic: What was the first thing you bought with your own money? Listen below. You can also find