Psychology Today

This blog offers tips for poly people and their non-poly loved ones on how to have a happy holiday season together.

This blog looks at four ways polyamorists express their commitments to each other verbally, with fluid bonding, via Google calendar, and with ceremonies.

Isolation, charismatic leaders, and groupthink could facilitate abuse in polyamorous families.

People can cheat before, during, and after consensual non-monogamous relationships. This cheating can be emotional and/or physical, involving lying or broken safer sex agreements.

Polyaffectivity offers men a way to connect with each other and stay connected with kids, even if no longer having sex with the kids' mother. Otherfathering provides connections.

Housework is an unpleasant chore, and the added people in polyamorous and other blended families can make it even more complex. There is ongoing research on poly household labor.

Polyamorists are in the midst of an advocacy program attempting to educate members of the general public about polyamory and foster social acceptance for poly relationships.

Psychological judgment against unconventional relationships has a long history, but using bias to make clinical decisions—consciously or not—is harmful to clients.

In the first of a two part blog, this blog looks at jealousy in polyamorous and monogamous relationships.

This blog explores the phenomenon of the One Penis Policy in which some men in polyamorous relationships attempt to limit their female partners access to other men.

When kids who grow up in polyamorous families have multiple adults in their lives, how do they decide who counts as a parent?

The second in a series of three on resilience, this blog looks at how polyamorous families de-emphasize sexuality and focus instead on polyaffectivity to sustain connections.

Because polyamory is stigmatized in conventional society, many poly parents or other adults who love children being raised in poly families are concerned about how growing up in a polyamorous family might affect children. In this blog I include a question from a concerned mother and my response to her concerns about how her relationships might impact her kids.

This blog explores some of the current cultural expressions of monogamy including hookup culture, serial monogamy, and the many new ways people can find access to cheating online. While monogamy is still the dominant cultural form, it is not inherently good in all instances. Monogamy is as open to flaws as are other forms of relationship.