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Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

093 - Being Secondary While Putting Yourself First

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

Sexuality, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.9935 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

At Multiamory, we generally discourage people from building their relationships on a basis of strict, primary-secondary hierarchy. However, primary-secondary relationships are still very common in the polyamorous community. All three of us have engaged in these kind of relationships at one point or another, for better or worse. In this episode, we talk about the experience of being a secondary partner, and we give our advice to secondaries for crafting relationships that will keep them safe, happy, and sane. If this show is helpful to you, consider joining our amazing community of like-minded listeners at patreon.com/Multiamory. You can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, bonus episodes, and more! Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack.Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand.Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you're happy with the same old ways of dating, if you enjoy sucking at communication, and you have no desire to improve your romantic life, then our podcast might not be for you.

0:10.0

But you want some out-of-the-box ideas to deepen your current relationships, broaden your

0:15.2

sexual horizons, develop a better understanding of yourself, or learn more about non-monogamy,

0:20.9

then you've come to the right place.

0:22.7

I'm Jace.

0:23.7

I'm Amelaine.

0:24.7

And I'm Dedaker.

0:25.7

And this is the Multiamari Podcast.

0:27.6

Bongs I know I did.

0:33.0

Forcing me for myself to fix.

0:40.0

On this episode of the multi-ammery podcast, we're talking about being a secondary

0:48.0

while still putting yourself first. So any of you who've listened to us a lot know that normally at

0:54.8

multi-amory we are not the biggest fans of hierarchical relationships, meaning

1:00.1

having primaries and secondaries. But at the same time we understand that this is still a very common thing within the Polly community and there are some things that you can definitely do being a secondary partner to someone who is in a hierarchical relationship

1:16.5

or if you are a secondary who's dating a couple. There are things that you can do to help take care of yourself

1:21.9

and that those relationships can be good.

1:25.1

And so that's what we're going to go through today on this episode.

1:28.1

Yeah, so to kind of kick things off, first let's talk about that terminology primary secondary in the first

1:34.8

place. You may be a quote-unquote secondary partner and that's very clear to you

1:42.3

you know that's been very clearly

1:44.2

labeled to you you know so maybe you started dating somebody who said well I have my

1:48.3

primary partner so-and-so and so you know that means that you're my secondary

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