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The Pros and Cons of Polyamory – Version 1
Version 1 of some Polyamory Pros and Cons. Thanks to my friends who helped contribute to this. Everyone has a unique experience with polyamory so opinions on something like this will vary. Feel free to share anything you think is definitely missing! Click here for text version of list.
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The Box That Doesn’t Fit
Story Time! It’s 11PM and the lights are off. Taylor is laying in bed next to her partner Jordan. Taylor lays there with nothing but the darkness of night and her own thoughts. Taylor rubs her own shoulders and neck hoping to dissolve away the pain from the day. Taylor didn’t do anything different today […]
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Hello. My Name is Lucas. I’m a Recovering People Pleaser.
I did something a little different this time. This feels really vulnerable but I like making myself uncomfortable because that’s how we grow. 🙂 Enjoy!
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Dear Current or Future Employers
Dear Employer, My name is Lucas Weeks, I’m polyamorous and I am in love with more than one person. That’s it, the cat is officially out of the bag. I started this blog 8 months ago and I kept my name out of everything on it since I started it. I felt the need to […]
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No, She Doesn’t Want to See Your Dick
When you’re in the world of polyamory for a handful of years and spend time on various forums, you start to see the same conversations over and over. Hard topics hashed out with no clear winners. One of the debates I see pretty consistently starts with a post like this: This triggers a back and […]
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How Polyamory Fixed my Fear of Commitment
You may be wondering why there’s a picture of rocking chairs from Cracker Barrel. I’ll get there so you can understand why. But first, we need to start 15 years ago. It was 2005, I was 21 years old and was engaged to the woman of my dreams. I was so excited, but despite my […]
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The Jealousy Mind Flayer
Someone shared this with you – likely because they know you are struggling with jealousy in your journey of polyamory. They want you to know that they understand what it’s like to feel insecure. They know it’s hard to think about your partner with another person – even if it’s just spending time away with […]
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Walls – My Hidden Toxic Trait
Before polyamory, I was a serial monogamist and had been in a few long term relationships starting from when I was 17. If you exclude all my middle school and high school relationships (can we even REALLY call them all relationships?) then I have not dated much at all as an adult. In a lot […]
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Hello From The Other Side
TW ~ Emotional/Mental Abuse Wait? The other side of what? What does that even mean? Well, I’m not dead and this isn’t a pop song or a Netflix original series. This is real life. We are all on the other side of something, right? You might be on the other side of college, cancer or […]
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An Open Letter to Those Who Feel Attacked in Polyamory
I enjoy lurking on facebook polyamory pages and reading the discussions people have. I’ve been doing it since the start of my journey over 5 years ago. Having been doing it for so long I started to notice patterns. I would watch people who were new to polyamory and just looking for some advice be […]