open relationships
Learning My Way Through My Poly Fears
Dynamics like mine require a lot of honesty, and often speaking honestly can make you feel vulnerable, but showing vulnerability to a partner is a good way to build trust and intimacy. At the same time, you learn a lot about yourself as you're forced to ask yourself tough questions and to think carefully about what you want from a relationship and why - in turn, this makes you appreciate the reasons you want to be with your partner(s), and what it is about being with them that makes you happy.
Relationship Structure and Troubleshooting: Navigating Poly Relationships
Be safe, have fun, and learn to spot some common warning signs of potential trouble ahead!
I Think I'm Poly: How Do I Initiate Open Relationships?
As you enter the wide world of polyamory, take care: a guide to managing poly relationships.
A First Polyamory Guide
(Mostly) everything (okay, okay, not mostly everything, but a lot) you wanted to know about polyamory.
Off the Beaten Path
When I was growing up, I often turned to my mother for relationship advice. We had our differences, but we were close, and I valued her opinions. However, I also found myself grappling with many of the things she said, because in all of it one thing was clear: for her, the only kind of acceptable sexual relationships are monogamous, heterosexual, long-term commitments.
From the start, I had some questions about this concept. What if I did not want to sleep with men at all? What if I did not feel interested in the marriage-and-kids thing?
Polyamorous? Does That Mean You Like Parrots?
One teen's experience with loving in plural.
First-Time Intercourse: It Was...Good?
We hear so many horror stories about first-time sex. Perhaps it might be good therapy to read about a first time that went well.
We're newly married, had sex with our best friends and it was awful.
anonymous
I'm 18 and I recently got married a few weeks ago. Thus far we've been pretty happy and are also expecting our first child. A few days ago we had some friends over: his best guy friend and my best girl friend. I guess curiosity got the best of us all and I ended up making out with the girl... and then one thing led to another, before I knew it my husband was having sex with her!...
How many partners do most people have in their lives, and is everyone serially monogamous?
Kalira
I'm so used to seeing TV shows with the "bachelor" who constantly sleeps around and never has a partner, or the one who's looking for "the one" and falls in love and looses someone new every five episodes....
How do I talk to my friend with benefits about safer sex issues?
Ashleigh
I have a friends with benefits relationship. I was on the pill before we started this relationship and I had a STD test which was negative. When we got together we used condoms a few times and then we got in the habit of not using a condom. I haven't been with anyone else since I was with him, but he may have....