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Laura Boyle
Mar 28, 20224 min read
Lap-Sitting Polyamory
What is Lap-Sitting Polyamory? Lap-sitting polyamory is the form of polyamory that this blog previously called "kitchen table polyamory...
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Laura Boyle
Apr 5, 20215 min read
Needs and Wants
One of the big upsides of polyamory folks often point out is that you have the option of getting your emotional and relational needs met...
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Laura Boyle
Mar 15, 20213 min read
Garden Party Polyamory
In a couple forums I’m in online, my preferred middle ground between carefully defined kitchen table polyamory and strictly bounded...
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Laura Boyle
Apr 29, 202010 min read
The Polyamorous People You’ll Meet:
If you make it out to enough meetups and make a group of poly friends who have other poly friends, you will with time meet all the...
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Laura Boyle
Apr 1, 20205 min read
Kitchen Table to Parallel Polyamory, Part 8: Extreme Parallel and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
In this last part of our Kitchen Table to Parallel Polyamory series, we’re looking at the extreme end of the parallel part of the...
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Laura Boyle
Mar 30, 20205 min read
Kitchen Table to Parallel Polyamory, Part 7: Strictly Parallel Relationships
We went through a lot of theory in Part 6 of this series - and very little in the way of stories and practical examples. A lot of that...
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Laura Boyle
Mar 27, 20204 min read
Kitchen Table to Parallel Polyamory, Part 6: Mildly Parallel Relationships
Rather than focusing on a polycule, today, we’re going to focus on how a pair of dyad relationships, each involving one common person,...
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Laura Boyle
Mar 25, 20207 min read
Kitchen Table to Parallel Polyamory, Part 5: The Polycule With a Little of Everything
Most extended constellations or big polycules are actually a mix of kitchen table and parallel polyamorous styles. You hit a point where...
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Laura Boyle
Mar 23, 20205 min read
Kitchen Table and Parallel Polyamory: Part 4, Kitchen Table Polyamory
Today, we have the basic idea of Kitchen Table Polyamory: being friendly among all of each other’s partners that could sit and have a cup...
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Laura Boyle
Mar 18, 20202 min read
Kitchen Table and Parallel Polyamory: Part 2: Extreme Kitchen Table
If we see entwinement of a specific relationship in a network as a spectrum, on one end we have Extreme Kitchen Table; the...
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Laura Boyle
Mar 18, 20202 min read
Kitchen Table Polyamory and Parallel Polyamory: Introduction
Today's post introduces an eight post series on the spectrum of parallel and kitchen table polyamory. There are wonderful, healthy...
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Laura Boyle
Mar 6, 20204 min read
The Relationship Escalator
The concept of the relationship escalator has existed for as long as modern nuclear families, but the term was coined in 2012, when Amy...
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