Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

This week's episode is all about the fun and the not so fun parts of new relationships and crushes: New Relationship Energy versus Limerence. We'll go into some of the psychology about it and how it's being researched, as well as how you can minimize limerence's negative effects. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone c...

How do you know what your values are? Our values help us know what's important to us individually and how to react in difficult situations. We'll be discussing some research about values, how they develop, and how to figure out what yours are. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episode...

This week's episode is all about how to date yourself! Having adequate alone time is vital, but if you don't know how to utilize it or if you're frightened of it, that can put a damper on its positive impact. We'll give you some tips during this episode! Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-f...

This week is a one-on-one interview with Michelle Hy, creator of the Polyamorous While Asian Instagram account and an advocate for spreading awareness about non-monogamy in BIPOC communities in order to affirm those who practice it. This episode is what we hope to be a start of more interviews from individuals in the community to discuss origin stories and the different perspectives of our peers....

This week's episode is about trauma responses: fight, flight, freeze, and the lesser known fawn. We're taking a dive into the ways these manifest and the psychology behind them, so stay tuned! Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord...

How do you even begin to pitch RADAR check-ins to a partner? What if you have a big fight or disagreement surrounding a RADAR? This episode is all about troubleshooting when you're running into issues regarding relationship check-ins! Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group...

It's been a while (4 years!) since we've really talked about jealousy, so this week we're revisiting the topic. This episode is deconstructing jealousy, from what its definition is to how it manifests. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazin...

This week's episode we're joined by Jackie Stone, the creator of the web series Compersion, and four of the actors in it: Derrick, Jammie, Loren, and Ka. It's been four years since Jackie was on the show and she's finally back to talk about season 2 of Compersion! Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get acce...

This week's episode is all about psychological flexibility: what it means, how it looks in real life, and the benefits it can have on your relationships, particularly for those of us in non-traditional and non-monogamous ones. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video di...

To kick off the month of March, this week's episode is a series of interviews from some of our Patreon subscribers about their relationships with their metamours! Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community. Multiamory was cre...

This week we welcome onto the show Evita "Lavitaloca" Sawyers, non-monogamy coach, speaker, educator, and creator of “Today’s Polyamory Reminder,” as well as subject of the groundbreaking documentary "Poly-Love." Evita answers some of our questions about her polyamorous journey and "Today's Polyamory Reminder," as well as her concept of polyamory and how it has changed. Find more of her on Instagr...

This episode is exploring the triangular theory of love, which was a model set forth in order to understand the different permutations of love and relationships. The struggle to define love has existed throughout the centuries and this is only scratching the surface of the philosophy behind love and the studies done on it. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We off...

Our culture doesn't always recognize the importance of having fun. This episode takes a look at some research on fun and enjoyment and discusses how we often think the best measure of success is productivity. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our...

The concept of chosen family emerged not too long ago, and in this episode we're exploring its origins, meaning, which communities use the term nowadays, and what legal protections there are or that can be taken for chosen family members. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, gr...

Dr. Eli Sheff joins us (again!) this week for her third appearance on our show to talk about her research on polyamorous families, as well as some different variations of polyamory and whether or not one of those variations may be right for you. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episo...

This week's episode tackles active listening, why it's so difficult to listen sometimes, the importance of learning to listen well, and some ways to practice becoming a better listener with your partner(s) and friends. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussion...

Crystal Byrd Farmer, a polyamorous writer and speaker from North Carolina. She is the website editor for Black & Poly and a board member for the Foundation of Intentional Communities. This week, she's joining us to talk about her book The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization and to allow us to pick her brain about diversity, tokenism, relationships, and more. Joi...

This episode is about change. It's a common saying not to date someone with the hopes of changing them, but human nature is change, so throughout this episode we're discussing what kind of change is reasonable to expect from a partner and how to tell if or when it's actually taking place. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so e...

There are a lot of common beliefs and well-established ideas within the polyamorous community. But how many of these are just touted as gospel because they're important changes to the compulsory monogamous ideals of society? In this episode we're exploring how some of these ideas might not be universally true and challenge the polyamory status quo. Join our amazing community of listeners at multia...

This week we're joined by Sex Out Loud podcast host, award-winning author, sex educator, and speaker Tristan Taormino to talk about solo polyamory and relationship anarchy. Tristan has edited 25 anthologies and written 8 books on the subject of sex and relationships, including Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships. She is also the founder of The Open List, which details...

We're so happy to have everyone who has stuck with us along this journey! For our 300th episode, we're talking about Multiamory's origins and how everything began for those who don't know it yet. Join us for some retrospection this week! Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, gro...

Join us with April Walsh, a game designer and civil liberties attorney, to talk about Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a kickstarter table top role playing game she designed. April's goal with her games is to centralize queer storytelling and celebrate queerness, and throughout this episode she talks about her experience making a queer table top game and some of the features of Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Join...

For this Multiamory episode, we're focusing on stress: the differences between distress and eustress, how stress is actually necessary for quality of life, healthy versus unhealthy stress, effects of bad stress, and how to balance stress levels to lead happier lives. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get a...

Dr. Rhonda Freeman, neuropsychologist and founder of Neuroinstincts®, has joined us this week to discuss what goes on in the brains of narcissistic and psychopathic people, and to speak a little about her own framework she devised to help people heal from bad relationships with such people. Dr. Freeman's website, neurosagacity.com, has resources and information via online courses for survivors of...

This week's guest is Erin Tillman, aka "The Dating Advice Girl," who has joined us to talk about health checkups in relationships and to give her valuable perspective on relationship health and wellness. Find more of Erin on her website at www. TheDatingAdviceGirl.com, Instagram and Twitter at @DatingAdviceGrl, TikTok at @MissErinTillman, and check out her book, The Consent Guidebook, at www. TheC...