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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326 - The View from 30,000 Feet
This week is all about philosophy! We're talking about Stoicism, some common issues people face in relationships, how looking at those issues from a bird's eye view can help us deal with them more objectively, and some caveats of Stoicism to make sure ever
44 min
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325 - Age, Generations, and Relationships
During this episode, we're covering how age affects relationships, sex, and dating, and how age and generation tend to affect our approach to relationships. Additionally, we'll touch on age gaps in relationships, some challenges they may pose, and how to a
50 min
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324 - Toxic Positivity
This week's episode is covering toxic positivity (it does exist!). We're going into detail about how toxic positivity shows up in our lives and what we can do to combat it and how to reframe it to be more helpful if we're the ones doling it out.
41 min
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323 - You Won't Like Me When I'm Angry
This week we're talking about anger, the beneficial aspects of it as well as the harmful and unhealthy ways we express it sometimes.
47 min
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322 - From the Kitchen Table to the Parallel Un...
This week's episode covers the "spectrum of entwinement," in polyamory, or the different forms and styles of polyamory people practice, how much entwinement they entail, what healthy vs. unhealthy versions of each style look like, and more!
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321 - Navigating Big Life Changes
This episode is all about the stress that big life changes brings about, whether or not the change is good or bad. We're going to talk about some of the effects of this stress, why it happens, and some ways to deal with it to make things easier on you and
50 min
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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
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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
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