Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relatio...
Multiamory offers support and advice for modern relationships. Whether you are monogamous, polyamorous, swinging, casually dating, or if you just do relationships differently, we see you and we’re here for you. Multiamory is a proud member of Pleasure Podcasts. For network details, contact cameron@pleasurepodcasts.com.
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320 - Limerence and NRE: The Dark and Light Sid...
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 limer
48 min
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319 - What Are Your Values?
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.
50 min
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318 - Party For One: Dating Yourself
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!
55 min
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317 - Multiamory Stories: Michelle Hy (Polyamor...
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
45 min
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316 - Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn
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!
51 min
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315 - RADAR Troubleshooting
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!
55 min
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314 - Deconstructing Jealousy
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.
50 min
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313 - Compersion Season 2: Roundtable Discussion
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 Com
63 min
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312 - Psychological Flexibility is (also) a Tri...
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.
57 min
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311 - Metamour March
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!
52 min
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310 - Polyamory Reminders with Evita Sawyers
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 h
58 min
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309 - Love is a Triangle
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 t
44 min
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308 - Fun Matters
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.
57 min
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307 - Chosen Family
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.
49 min
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306 - Bonding Styles with Dr. Eli Sheff
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.
60 min
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305 - Why Won't You Listen?
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.
53 min
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304 - Community Diversity and Tokenism with Cry...
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 Sen
49 min
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303 - Is Your Partner Going to Change?
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
58 min
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302 - Challenging Polyamory Concepts for Advanc...
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
61 min
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301 - Solo Polyamory with Tristan Taormino
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 rel
63 min
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300 - 300th Episode!!!
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!
58 min
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299 - Thirsty Sword Lesbians with April Walsh
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, a
57 min
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298 - Eustress, or Are You a Good Stress or a B...
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 hap
53 min
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297 - Your Brain in a Bad Relationship (with Dr...
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
51 min
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296 - Relationship Health Checkup (with Erin Ti...
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.TheDatingAdv
55 min