by Melina | Sep 18, 2020 | Non Monogamy, Polyamory, Relationship Anarchy
This article originally appeared on Polysingleish, June 28th, 2015. It has been edited and updated from it’s original version. I have a confession: it took me a while to wrap my head around what ‘couple’s privilege’ was all about....
by Melina | Sep 17, 2020 | Non Monogamy, Polyamory
This article originally appeared on Polysingleish, Feb 9th, 2015. It has been edited and updated from it’s original version. The Perfect Polyamorous Person— or PPP for short— develops in all of us who start exploring polyamory. It’s this future...
by Melina | Apr 5, 2019 | Intimacy, Monogamy, Non Monogamy
When we hold an expectation of our partner to be everything: best friend, surrogate parent, emotional processor, and the sole person responsible for supplying our life pleasure and happiness, things tend to go awry. We’ve been raised with these expectations, but that...
by Melina | May 7, 2017 | Intimacy, Monogamy, Non Monogamy, Relationship Anarchy
“Boundaries are an essential part of life. They delineate and maintain needed borders and separations, making differentiation possible at every level. Boundaries both contain and preserve the integrity of what they are safeguarding, be that physical, psychological,...
by Melina | Aug 31, 2016 | Conflict Intimacy, Monogamy, Non Monogamy
“Some day my prince will come Some day we’ll meet again And away to his castle we’ll go To be happy forever I know” ~Some Day My Prince Will Come, by Frank Churchill and Lorey Morey, from the Walt Disney Movie “Snow White”. The alure of the One True Love....
by Melina | May 7, 2016 | Conflict Intimacy, Monogamy, Non Monogamy
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been preparing for a new workshop that I’m offering with two dear friends. Our workshop is all about relating courageously and compassionately, and so I’ve been thinking about what it means to be authentic in relationships, and how...
