Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana: I’ve been seeing This Incredible Guy for several months and am falling head over heels in love […]
The ideas that plural marriage is restricted to the one man and several wives model—and that it has to have a religious basis—are both ridiculous. “Non-traditional.” A popular catch-all phrase that seems, in common usage, to mean anything that differs from the mainstream. It also describes a large portion of my life—my love life, specifically. My upbringing […]
For one thing, swingers report more exciting and satisfying lives than the general population. Consensually non-monogamous (CNM) relationships, where committed partners mutually agree not to be sexually and/or romantically exclusive to one another, are slowly gaining visibility in the media. Yet, a few anecdotes aside, they are still shrouded in stereotype and mystery. Here are […]
I know that there are more of you out there who want to talk about this, but who in their right mind would, when the result is social ostracization? Last week, two editorial bastions of progressive, mostly middle-aged-male thinking on either side of the Atlantic—London’s New Statesman and New York’s New Republic—apparently decided it was […]
