Sometimes, we carry over trauma from a bad relationship into a good one, and this can make it difficult to have a fulfilling and happy relationship, even if it's with a good person. This episode discusses how PTSD and past baggage can show up in current relationships, how otherwise healthy behavior can be unsettling or confusing if you’re used to a toxic relationship, and as always, some actionable takeaways for recovering from trauma and building healthier relationships.

Today is all about building and maintaining trust in relationships. We're discussing what it means to trust your partner, the process of establishing that trust, and if trust is breached, what you can do to make sure it is reestablished, and more on today's episode.

We've done episodes about de-escalating relationships or decoupling them, but this week we're talking about the opposite! We're discussing what it looks like when a relationship becomes more entangled, like going from friends to lovers, from friends with benefits to more romantic partners, etc., as well as the emotional, social, and logistical aspects of increasing our levels of entanglement with others.

We're back with another Q&A episode! This week we'll be answering some of our patrons' questions with Kate Loree, one of our friends who co-hosts the sex-positive podcast Open Deeply with Sunny Megatron. Kate Loree is also a sex-positive licensed marriage and family therapist with a specialty in non-monogamous, kink, LGBTQ, and sex worker communities and the author of Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships.

This week, we're discussing the differences between needs, wants, expectations, boundaries, rules, agreements, and how these terms tend to be often used interchangeably, as well as how these terms affect our communication in relationships.

For the second part of our series on unhealthy relationship patterns, we're discussing some specific considerations when it comes to unhealthy relationship patterns in non-monogamy, as well as some actionable tools you can use to help break the cycle of unhealthy habits.

This week we're beginning a two-part discussion about unhealthy relationship patterns and why we sometimes tend to repeat them, sometimes even when we know they're unhealthy. We're going to be exploring why we do this, how it relates to past trauma and attachment theory, and attempt to answer the question, “Do people really have a type?”

For those of us with multiple partners, sometimes the idea of navigating a social situation including everyone can be stressful or intimidating. This week, we're talking about some ways to minimize this anxiety as a hinge partner in social situations.

It's time for another episode featuring one of the other podcasts in the network we're a part of. This week we're featuring Sex Talk with My Mom, where Cam and KarenLee talk about sex and sex scripts with Dr. Ian Kerner, author of So Tell Me About the Last Time You Had Sex: Laying Bare and Learning to Repair Our Love Lives.

This week's episode is another Q&A style one with questions pulled from our Patreon group about friends with benefits relationships, transitioning from polyamory back to monogamy, and more!

This week we're covering a tough topic: desirability politics and dating preferences. Analyzing where our preferences come from, especially within the context of sexual and romantic connections, may tell us a lot about society as a whole rather than any individual person’s choices.
Our researcher, Dr. Keyanah Nurse, joins us to day to help us unpack how all desire is political, how these politics play out in dating and partner selection, and how they may show up in managing multiple polyamorous relationships.

This week's episode is focusing on heartbreak, breakup, and recovery, and sorting through all the advice out there to try to narrow down what is helpful during a breakup and what isn't. We’re also going to look at some research about breakups and heartbreak, share some personal experiences, and finally, some suggestions of healthy recovery strategies.

This week's episode is focusing on disability, specifically what it means to have a disability, dating with disabilities, and addressing ableism both in the polyamorous community and within our individual relationships.

We are joined by one of our researchers, Em Mais, to discuss these topics and get their insight on them as a disabled, polyamorous person.

This week we're having a special Q & A session with the hosts of Multiamory to give some personal insight into some of the many questions we get asked. If it's well-received, we'll do another next month!

This week we're having a special episode featuring one of our co-podcasters on the Pleasure Podcast network, Nicoletta, who hosts Sluts & Scholars. In this episode, Nicoletta interviews Emily Nagoski, about her book, Come As You Are, and picks her brain about her insights and discoveries about sex.

Our guest this week is therapist John Howard, who has joined us to talk about his newly published book, More Than Words. John Howard is an internationally recognized therapist, wellness expert, and educator who uses the latest science to help couples have stronger relationships. He is the host of The John Howard Show, a wellness podcast, and the creator of the Ready Set Love® series of online programs for couples. John is a Cuban-American whose first language is Spanish and thus prioritizes diversity and inclusion, drawing on multicultural influences from years of traveling and studying indigenous traditions.

This week we're joined by our lawyer, Melissa Hall, to talk about wills, cohabitation, power of attorney, and more. Melissa has her own law firm where she helps her clientele navigate life's ups and downs. She is committed to being as generalist as a form of specialization and to using access to legal resources to help people who would otherwise be at a disadvantage.

Pornography is a hot issue a lot of the time. This week, we're talking about porn, what it is, why people consume it, sex education, porn addiction, porn in relationships, and misinformation about it in our society. We're contradicting some of the mainstream ideas that exist around pornography and sex work and discussing de-stigmatization, sex worker support, and how these things can contribute to safer, healthier lives.

What is expressive suppression? How can it impact and impair our day to day lives? In this episode, we're discussing expressive suppression, its advantages, disadvantages, the psychology behind it, and how to address expressive suppression when it may be doing more harm than good.

We're discussing the phenomenon of imposter syndrome, which affects many of us in our day to day lives. We'll be talking about how it can affect our relationships as well, and some tools we can use to combat it.