Category: Personal Stories
April 29, 2013
Making Mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes. Every last person on the face of the planet, you, me, the people sat around you while you read this on the tube, each and every one if us and I would wager that a lot of ...
This article is about a new beginning after a long-term monogamous relationship. How best to balance the primacy of my new relationship with myself and opportunities to grow through friendship and intimacy with others? How ‘out’ to be at this ...
April 17, 2013
Relationship Assumptions: Cheating and Commitment
Today a friend told me that there was a debate on This Morning about mistresses. I haven't seen it and I don't know whether it was about ethical, consenting extra-marital relationships, about illicit affairs or a mix of both. To ...
April 5, 2013
A Poly Origin Story
If being poly were my superpower, this would be my poly origin story... When I was young, I made all of my life choices based on what seemed like the right thing to do and at the time. Even today, I ...
March 29, 2013
Starting Out Duogamous
The man I love, and I, have been polyamorous for a long time now – for me, relationships without artificial boundaries represent freedom, trust, and good-old exploring-with-your-partner fun. In fact, free love is a cause I have dedicated my life ...
August 20, 2012
Limits to Forum Openness
I've been pleased to see several places grow on the Internet for poly community. Many aim to span as wide a range of poly people as possible and I think that is usually good: greater diversity as well as greater ...
During July and August, we'll be crowdsourcing answers to oft-asked poly-related questions via Polytical's facebook and twitter. Polly will return as usual in September – so please do continue sending her questions! Today's column is brought to you with grateful ...
July 25, 2012
Sometimes it is about the sex
It feels strange to write that as the title of this piece, as I - and I'm sure many other polyamorous people reading this, have spent quite a lot of time telling people that polyamory is not about the sex. Except ...
Meeting The four organisers of OpenCon Catalonia had all attended the UK OpenCon last October and then decided to run something themselves - the idea had started as a joke, then snowballed, and suddenly it was late May, and I was ...
May 18, 2012
Love and Marriage
I just registered my intent to marry my partner in the UK, coincidently around the time when the state I used to live in, North Carolina, banned same sex marriage in the state via Amendment One. In addition, I'm attending ...
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