Recently my wife became polyamorous. My wife and I have been married for 15 years, raising two kids together for 12. We’ve had the usual challenges with boredom and intimacy over the years, but nothing I would call out of the ordinary. Then, about a year ago, my wife confided that she’d been having an…
Five open marriages myths that you must stop believing: 1. Open marriages are all about intimacy More than anything, open marriages are about honesty and communication. Many polyamorous couples, like blogger Jenny Block and her husband, struggled more with secret affairs than with extramarital activity itself. In her article “Open Marriage Is Not A Fad,”…
Polyamory refers to the desire for and the practice of engaging in consensual, non-monogamous romantic or sexual relationships with multiple partners. A recent paper by Hnatkovicova and Bianchi suggests there are eight motivations for polyamory. These include psychodynamic motivations, the satisfaction of needs not met in a monogamous romantic relationship, and the fulfillment of needs…
Open Relationships: Various Thoughts by Insiders 1. “My girlfriend and I are non-monogamous. I wish people understood that non-monogamy isn’t something people do because they don’t ‘love their partner enough.’ We chose to have this aspect to our relationship because we’re both people who tend to have feelings for more than one person at a…
A polyamorous mother-of-two has revealed how she betrayed her husband of 28 years with another woman she met at work, and why she cheated on him for 12 months without him finding out. Danielle, from Sydney, had been with her partner and the father of her two children for nearly three decades when she met…
One week in the life of this kinky polyamorous throuple. Danny is a student and stay-at-home parent to a toddler they share with their husband. Danny’s trans-masculine, non-binary and has been married since 2018, with the couple forming a non-sexual closed triad with a third person they’ve been dating for close to three years. That…
I had been wandering the liquor store for some minutes when the clerk approached and asked if I needed help. I considered blurting out loudly, “Should I try polyamory?”. “Hello,” I would say. “I’m wine shopping for dinner with my boyfriend and his two partners, whom I’ll be meeting for the first time. You wouldn’t…
The Air Force veteran fatally shot by police during the US Capitol riot on January 6 had been in a sexual “throuple” with her husband and their live-in girlfriend, according to reports. Ashli Babbitt, 35, and her husband, Aaron Babbitt, 39, lived in a sexual “throuple” with their 29-year-old gal pal Kayla Joyce in San…
