Be mine, and hers, and his: Valentine’s Day for the open and polyamorous It has some good tips for the monogamous, too.
Intimacy
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. –Kathleen Norris
Being Open/Available/Attractive?
A dear friend asked about how to improve his chances of meeting someone and said that he doesn’t consider himself attractive. I do consider him attractive. After I wrote and sent the following to him, I realized that I need…
Relationship Truths
More from Renatta Paries’ What It Takes
Poly and Proud
I added a feed for the Poly and Proud weblog this morning as polyandproud. The description from the site’s newsletter is: We’re ushering in the new year with a new poly blog, one that tracks references to polyamory in the…
2003 Review
I did this last year, and it was interesting to go back and read it today. I think one of the things I like most about keeping a journal is the ability to review the past without quite as much…
Measuring Relationships
Something I posted in a friend’s journal as a comment, that I felt worth reposting here: …That caused me to stop and think—I’m more “ME” with sambear than I’ve ever been before. In every other relationship, I’ve given up a…
Honesty and Polyamory
Three times in the recent past, I’ve had strangers ask me to give them an opinion on some situation touching polyamory. Each time, they never communicated with me again after I did so. I find that rather rude. But in…
Extravert Fix?
Hmm. Am I becoming an extrovert? I went to Border Pagans with curiousmay9 and shadowkatt and I’m somewhat hyper. This is very, very odd for me. The topic was intentional community/intentional family. We ended up only talking about intentional community,…
Friday Fun
The cold seems to have turned into bronchitis. Stay away, stay away! I bear plague! If I’m not better by tomorrow, I’ll let sambear drag me to the doctor. shadowkatt is getting ready to go hang out with nearby-friend-C (as…