Polyamorous literature is full of touching stories of how opening a marriage rekindled a deep and abiding love between the original couple and deepen their relationship. You think I’m gonna sneer, ain’tcha? Nope. I’m not. I think many of those stories are quite true and are wonderful tales to tell. I do want to point…
Month: March 2008
Re-Run: If it Ain’t About Love
It’s been a busy week and I have the flu, so this is a re-run of a personal fave. Peeve time, and this is a big one. I get sucked into drama really easily. I’m an intense person and all the gods know that I am a sucker for almost any type of intensity –…
It Ain’t Just Polyamory, People!
Back many moons ago when I used to write for PolyFamilies, my spice at the time and I used to muse over the fact that the site would be useful to almost anyone. It was mostly about running a household, with the quirkiness of being a multi-adult marriage thrown in. The principles, however, could be…
The PolyFamilies Drinking Game
Back about a year ago, when I rejoined the PolyFamilies Community, I was still working in an office and had some slack time. Being bored, I proposed creating a PolyFamilies drinking game based on some common things that happened on the particular list. Some of ’em are peculiar to the PolyFamilies “subculture”, and some are…
The Final Word on Polyamory
A lot of people think that there’s some definition of polyamory that’s the final word on the subject. I’d like to address that a little. Technically, this article should be about three words long: “There isn’t one.” Once you get past the concept of “willing to have more than one sexual/romantic partner”, you start getting…