What A Mess! | I Am PolyamorousThis past year, my Poly life has been a little crazy, and I am not dealing with it well. I've had really bad panic problems since my husband told me his girlfriend was pregnant, although that wasn't t...What A Mess...
What is a polysexual person? The prefix “poly” means many, and polysexual individualsare attracted to people of multiple genders. People who identify as polysexual often use that word because it suggests a greater variety of sexual orientations than traditional gender binaries of male and femal...
What is a polyamorous relationship? There are differences between a mutually polyamorous relationship and simply seeing other people. When you are polyamorous, you are not just seeing other people. You agreed as a couple that you are the primary partners. You are in love and want to remain ...
All right, so what is “polyamory”? The wordpolyamoryis based on the Greek and Latin for “many loves” (literally,polymany +amorlove). A polyamorous person is someone who has, or is open to having, more than one romantic relationship at a time, with the knowledge and consent of ever...
4. Be respectful. Navigating intimate relationships with more than one person means that it is especially important to be a thoughtful andactive listener. Take the time to really understand and respect not just your own boundaries but everyone else's in the polycule. ...
If we contemplate more deeply, polyamory has to be about romantic love, the whole point of polyamory is that we can have romantic love with more than one person. In this case, friendship would not be polyamorous. Additionally, because romantic love is often understood in deep connection with...
Hy isn't the only polyamorous influencer facing these unrealistic expectations of unofficial ambassadorship. Followers can feel invested in the representation they want to see, forgetting that influencers are just living their lives. "My ex is Black, and so am I, but none of my other partners...
The beautiful thing about non-monogamy is that it can take on many, varied forms: A non-monogamous dynamic can look like one polyamorous person having multiple romantic and sexual partners, or several individuals all in a non-hierarchical relationship together. One term you might've heard is ...
Poly A polyamorous person. Polyester Any of a large class of synthetic fabrics Poly A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium polium) of the family Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean. Poly Polyamorous. Poly To polymorph; to transform by magic. Poly A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of...
She, her girlfriend, and her boyfriend consider themselves to be part of a polycule, a linked group of polyamorous people. “Polycule” is a play on the word “molecule,” and just as a molecule is made of a bunch of individual atoms that come together to form something totally new,...