Grief and Loss Among the Polys

By John Ullman

S has been gone for over eight years now. She died suddenly, a heart attack, at 61. Her death shocked our poly community, many of us being close to her age. We had lost another of us some years before, but it was an accident, a car wreck. Then we were stunned. But when S died, we were rudely made aware of our own mortality.

Her ...

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Categories: Blog, Polyamory, Polyamory and Aging, Relationships

Tags: Aging Polyamory, open relationships, Poly Families, Polyamory, Relationships, Relationships and aging

Growing Up in a Group Marriage

One day in the summer of 1971, my parents held hands, closed their eyes and jumped out of their conventional marriage into something strange and new. I was 9 years old at the time, and we were camping at Betsy Lake in the High Unitas Wilderness with another family of five. We were halfway into the camping trip when the six of us kids realized our parents had ...

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Categories: kids, Poly Parenting

Tags: Group Marriage, marriage, Polyamory, Polyamory Parenting, Relationships, traditional family

Shifting The Monogamy Paradigm

By Robyn Trask

Reprinted from Loving More Magazine issue 35, Copyright 2005

One of the questions asked most frequently by polyamorous couples is “how do we make polyamory work for us while maintaining our relationship as a couple?” The question is easy; the answer is at once both simple and complex: You don’t!

Many people — myself included — are working to make their poly relationships viable and sustainable while using tools ...

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Polymorphous Diversity

The Array of Designer Relationships in Polyamory

Book Excerpt from What Does Polyamory Look Like? Polydiverse Patterns of Loving and Living in Modern Polyamorous Relationships By Mim Chapman, PhD

Publisher: iUniverse.com, August, 2010

Available through the Loving More bookstore.

Polyamory is sometimes described as many ways of loving, not just many loves. To be totally honest, most of us don’t really have all that many loves…after all, although love is unlimited, time ...

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Tags: Loving More updates, open relationships, Polyamory, Polyamory Books, Polyamory Diversity, relationship revolution

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality Book Reveiw by David Hall, PhD

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality written by Christopher Ryan, PhD and Cacilda Jethà, PhD

Harper. 2010

I am a sex educator and have been teaching college students and adults what I have learned about Human Sexuality for many years. This book has caused me to look seriously at what I believed was factual about my favorite subject and question some of the received wisdom of my text books and mentors. I think this book is a “MUST ...

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OCT

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Tags: Born to cheat, Loving More Conference, Loving More Magazine, open relationships, Origins of Polyamory, Polyamory, Polyamory Activism, Polyamory Books, Polyamory Conference, Polyamory Leadership, Polyamory Updates, Relationship Conference, sexual revolution, traditional family