Monday, September 3, 2012

Here's a blog about polyamory.  I'm inspired by the number of people I've heard talk about how they can understand or identify with polyamory or open relationships, but they have no practical experience.  I've been in a happy, practicing open marriage for about 2 years (happy for 8, open for 2), and I've got opinions.  Plus, I've learned a ton, and I'd like to share my experiences with those who might benefit.  After all, in face-to-face contact, I get a lot of questions about polyamory, and they're starting to sound the same.  So bring them on.  Anything you want advice about?  Give me a shout at polysaturated at rocketmail dot com.

You'll get opinions from me that have been run through my spouse, my non-spousal primary, and my lover who is secondary by choice (my definition of polyamory: I'm in love with multiple people, have loved each of them for a significant time, they have practical and personal differences, but I don't necessarily have obvious differences in emotional priority among them).  If you're extremely lucky (or your question very complicated), you might get opinions from my metamours (lovers of lovers, with some of whom I have independent relationships).  So you'll likely get a good consensus of well-thought-out answers.

In the meantime, I think the big question about relationships, monogamous and open, revolve around effective communication.  And communication is hard.  Most hard things benefit from both theoretical instruction and practice.  You're in charge of practice, but I can recommend anything put out by the Harvard Negotiation Project for theoretical instruction.  I'd start with Difficult Conversations; it's very accessible, practical, and short.  You may have no need to write me after all.

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