Some polyamorous men claim they want equality, yet their rules for women say otherwise. The morning after a date, Hannah* woke up with what she described as “all the feelings.” She and Greg* had met the night before for scotch and cigars. She had dressed up in an “uber-feminine” outfit, even painting her nails to […]
Absence really DOES make the heart grow fonder. “It’s never going to work,” everyone said about my long-distance relationship. Thirteen years ago, I threw myself head first into a committed relationship with a man who lived in San Francisco. I lived in Florida. We were separated by more than three thousand miles, strict work schedules, financial […]
They taught me that the more you love people, the more love you have to give. My parents (to my knowledge at least) are about as monogamous as you can get. They met on the playground—11 years old, my mom turned to her friend and said “I’m going to marry him.” She did. And to […]
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 […]
