Tales from the front of responsible non-monogamy from a pansexual, kink-friendly point of view. For the full PW blog, visit www.polyweekly.com
Listener Shanna calls in to ask if her willingness to be poly will help them get past her husband's cheating.
0:00 Introduction and host chatUnder 18? Stop listening now and visit http://www.scarleteen.com
1:00 AnnouncementsWait for the second date to reveal you’re poly? From Savage Love
5:15 Topic: will poly fix his cheating?Listener Shanna calls in to say that her husband has cheated and she is open to polyamory. How do they move past the cheating and improve their relationship together?
22:40 FeedbackWe learn the term “parrot gliding”!
23:45 Happy Poly MomentMarie shared a happy poly moment in Swedish!
How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
What do you do when your partner dismisses your shit-owning?
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1:00 AnnouncementsWe’ll be at Poly Dallas Millennium next month
1:20 Poly in the NewsWait for the second date to reveal you’re poly? From Savage Love
4:30 Topic: when owning your shit isn’t enoughListener A writes in to ask when owning your shit isn’t enough—how about treating your partner with compassion and care. Sometimes, people use “own your shit” to mean “I don’t want to do the work that a healthy relationship requires.” Where is the line between owning your shit and being compassionate and caring for your partner?
Relationship Bill of Rights
12:45 FeedbackIvan called in with a HPM about kids meeting metamours
21:45 How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
Is it OK that I am feeling displaced by my metamour?
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1:30 AnnouncementsWe complain about having to close the windows and turn off the fans in order to record when it’s 90 degrees out. J Also!
New to Poly is feeling pushed aside by her partner’s relationship with her new metamour, with whom her partner is exploring BDSM. She is feeling displaced because her partner is repeatedly canceling or changing her established chats in order to make plans with her new metamour. Is it OK to feel this way?
Diva called in with a happy poly moment about coming out to her kid!
34:20 Thank you!Welcome Abby as a new playmate and thanks Leadra in Germany for the $69 donation!
17:30 How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
Minx addresses Bialik's misconceptions about open relationships.
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1:30 AnnouncementsLusty Guy’s My Swinging Origin Story
2:10 Topic: Responding to Mayim Bialik’s video post on open relationshipsA few weeks ago, Mayim Bialik made a video post about how she doesn’t get open relationships. Here’s my response video on YouTube and on Facebook (with 22,000 views already!)
She has quite a few misconceptions! Here are the top six misconceptions I created a response video to clear up:
Free wrote in to share an HPM about helping out a partner’s sick kid. Parenting happy poly moment for the win!
17:30 How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
A chat with podcaster and author Cooper S. Beckett about his new novel, Approaching the Swingularity.
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1:30 AnnouncementsLusty Guy’s My Swinging Origin Story
2:00 Interview: Cooper S. BeckettCooper S. Beckett, long time host of the Life on the Swingset podcast, talks about his new fiction novel, Approaching the Swingularity.
Our written interview blog post with Cooper about Approaching the Swingularity.
Follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
23:45 How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
A listener calls in from Japan to ask if one can be successfully poly if one is introverted.
0:00 Introduction and host chatUnder 18? Stop listening now and visit http://www.scarleteen.com
1:30 AnnouncementsLusty Guy’s Swingtowns article on fighting fair
Alan’s poly 101 article
2:20 Topic: Can you be introverted and poly?
A listener writes in from Japan to ask if it’s possible to come across as anything other than lonely and desperate when you’re introverted and poly. Then he calls in a few weeks later to say that, after reading our books and listening to our podcasts, he feels GREAT and is good to go!
Lusty Guy’s article on loving yourself first
14:15 FeedbackAlex asked about my idea of improving the relationships I enter and what Lusty Guy and L would say Minx has improved their relationship? L’s list:
Thanks to anonymous, Kerstin and JA for becoming playmates and for donating to PW!
30:30 How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
Kevin Patterson and Ruby Bouie Johnson join the team to review that NYT Magazine article on open marriage from May 11.
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1:15 Topic: That New York Time Magazine articleIn this unrepresentative 12,000 word article, New York Times Magazine chooses to show only dysfunctional poly couples and uses Kevin as The Token Black Guy.
This is their more representative follow up article
Kevin’s response post The Times Piece About Open Marriage Doesn’t Represent My Experience
Ruby’s response post What the New York Times Neglected to See
25:30 How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
Jenn Stauffer of Utah Poly shares her insights on the testing and transmission of four key STIs
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1:30 Announcements and host chatI’ll be giving a talk on polyamory at Ignite Seattle on May 18. Keep an eye on the Poly Weekly Facebook page and Twitter account for the livestream if you’d like to watch remotely.
3:10 Topic:Jenn Stauffer of Utah Poly shares the key takeaways from her RelateCon presentation on The Sensible Slut, a review of the transmission and testing methods of the top four STIs: chlamydia, HPV, HSV and HIV. Contact her via Utah Poly.
28:10 FeedbackListener K writes in to talk about the newbie poly mistakes they made and to express gratitude at the educational materials PW provides so they don’t feel so alone!
30:05 ThanksThanks to our newest anonymous PW Playmate!
29:30 How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
An interview with Racheline Maltese, co-author of a new poly romance novel.
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1:30 Announcements and host chatRacheline Maltese, co-author of the new poly romance novel The Art of Three with Erin McRae, talks about the process of writing a romance novel for poly folks.
Racheline Maltese can fly a plane, sail a boat, and ride a horse, but has no idea how to drive a car; she’s based in Brooklyn. Erin McRae has a graduate degree in international affairs for which she focused on the role of social media in the Arab Spring; she’s based in Washington DC. Together, they write romance – often queer, often poly -- about fame and public life. Their work is currently available with, or forthcoming from, publishers including Cleis, Dreamspinner, Riptide, and Simon & Schuster’s Saga Press. As hybrid authors, they also independently publish. Like everyone in the 21st century, they met on the Internet.
Their website
Buy The Art of Three here
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28:30 FeedbackCatherine gives feedback on episode 368 Metamour cock block—she was on the other side of a similar situation, and she is happy to hear the advice given!
33:45 Happy poly momentMeredith writes in with a sweet family happy poly moment
35:45 ThanksThanks to Manfred and Natalie and welcome Stephanie to the Poly Weekly Playmates!
36:00 How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”
Help! Compersion squicks me! Does it mean I'm jealous if hearing about my husband's dates disgusts me?
0:00 Introduction and host chatUnder 18? Stop listening now and visit http://www.scarleteen.com
Today’s cohost is Lusty Guy
1:30 Announcements and host chatNew Dutch bank bunq commercial specifically targets polys!
5:15 Topic: help! Compersion squicks me!Lauren has been married to her husband for 24 years and non-monogamous (mostly swinging) for 12. Five years ago, she discovered he had cheated, and they worked through it. Now they date separately. And while he loves hearing what she does on her dates, but Lauren is grossed out even thinking about what he does on his dates.
15:30 FeedbackMatthew writes in to say he tried the And then what? exercise to deal with jealousy/fear/insecurity but didn’t think he learned anything from it.
21:45 Happy poly momentA listener writes in with a happy poly moment of her triad going really well, metamours and all!
25:00 ThanksWelcome to Susan and Rachel, our newest Poly Weekly playmate subscribers!
25:45 How to make this podcast betterQuestions? Comments? Feedback? Email polyweekly@gmail.com and attach an audio comment or call the listener comment line at 802-505-POLY. Friend us on Twitter or Facebook, leave a comment here. Check out Poly Weekly podcasts at polyweekly.libsyn.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review! Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions.”