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Girls Can Be Creepy, Too

My current problem is this: How do I get guys to not run away screaming when they find out I’m married? At least I think that’s my problem… I’ll explain below. I come across a guy and he seems...

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Candy Store Polyamory: How much is enough?

\ My ex-gf helped me discover that I’m poly, like her. We’re in a romantic friendship now, because things just feel right that way instead of a friendship or serious relationship. I also have another...

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Bait and Switch in Polyamory

I don’t know if I’m not really poly or just got myself into a bad situation my first time out. I met a man who said he was poly, and I liked him. I thought about it really long and hard and decided...

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When Does it Stop Hurting

I’ve just met a really great guy. We’ve been dating for about a few months now, and every day, I fall more for him in little ways. I know I should just assume this is the honeymoon phase, but it feels...

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How to Rebuild Trust

I stumbled across your blog while searching for resources on polyamory and STDs. Another question that someone asked was like what happened to me and encouraged me to talk to someone. My wife and I...

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Never Promised Monogamy

So a couple of months ago I met man online who advertised himself as being in an open marriage. He lives far away. We hit it off in a huge way, and a month later he came to visit me. The chemistry was...

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Jack and Jill

About a year ago I met a man whom I had an immediate connection with (I still to this day cannot explain what made me feel so comfortable with him right off the bat as I am generally a reserved woman...

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Transitioning From Triad to V

I am madly in love with one of my partners. We have been together for a year and a half. He has been married to a woman for 19 years whom I love dearly. They were not poly at the time. She had never...

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Fortune Favors the Bold

I’m having some trouble. I’m a happily married man, with a wife of 8 years, and we’ve been polyamorous for nearly two years now. So far, though, it’s only resulted in a very close friendship of mine...

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Relationship Broken, Add More People Doesn’t Work

So, me (26 F) and my partner (37 M) have been in what we call a monogamish relationship pretty much since the beginning four years ago. I’ve slept with many, many dudes, and he’s also had the odd...

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How to Ask People Out

Do you have any advice for a guy in a non-monogamous relationship who doesn’t know how to ask people out? I mean, I know how to—I’m in a relationship—but I have no experience in poly things. My...

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Rule One*

This was an ask on my Tumblr, but I just had to repost it. Hi there! I have a bit of a dilemma at the moment. I’m in a long term poly relationship (together 6 years, poly for 1.5) I’ve recently found...

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Trust and Self-Control

I am in a non-monogamous relationship with my partner of about 18 months. We are both inexperienced in that we have both only ever had monogamous relationships before and have only been open for about...

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Participating in Cheating

I am a woman who is a solo polyamorist.  I experienced a painful break-up with a FWB over a year ago, and I took it very hard (I have never taken this long to get over a break-up before), so I’ve been...

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Don’t Patronize Me

I am in a poly relationship. My boyfriend identifies as poly, I identify as… well, I don’t really identify in any specific way. I am just as comfortable inside of monogamous relationships as I am...

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Why Can’t We Be Friends?

I am feeling so lost. I have been in a romantic relationship with my boyfriend for nearly two years now. He and his wife started out as swingers, my husband and I were monogamous. But my bf and I fell...

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Expecting Truth and Mental Health

A couple of months ago, a relationship ended badly. A man I was seeing lied to all(?) three of his partners about everything from safe-sex practices to emotional involvement, even where he was when he...

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Expect the Unexpected

Hi. My husband and I have been together for years, though we are still in our early 20’s. We have a toddler together and are very happy. My husband had been interested in opening out relationship up...

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Just a Curiosity

I need some help. I am new to the world of poly, in fact I would go as far as saying it’s just a curiosity. But I have kind of put myself in an awkward situation now.   I have a boyfriend whom I love...

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Little Things, Big Things

I have been married 5 years to my husband, we have no kids, and have begun a polyamourous lifestyle and successfully established an additional relationship.  Here are a couple issues we are facing.  I...

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