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Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

281 - The Shame Game 1: Origins

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

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

4.9970 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week we're kicking off a two-part series on shame in relationships: where it comes from, why we feel it, how it can affect our relationships (especially nontraditional ones), and ways to deal with feeling it to counteract its effects. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community.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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Because Americans and some people in particular often feel shame about feeling shame,

0:04.6

that sometimes we even lose track of what shame even feels like at all in the first place if we're

0:10.0

so used to just kind of tamping it down.

0:11.7

Like Emily, like you said, like about kind of tamping it down like Emily like you said like about kind of

0:13.4

shoving it to the back you know and it's there but we don't want to look at it we don't

0:17.2

want to acknowledge it that sometimes like your body and your motion still find a way

0:20.9

of it coming out. Welcome to the multi-ammery podcast I'm

0:25.0

I'm Jace. I'm Emily and I'm Dedicher.

0:27.0

We believe in looking to the future of relationships,

0:30.0

not maintaining the status quo of the past.

0:32.0

So whether you're monogamous, polyamorous, not maintaining the status quo of the past.

0:32.6

So whether you're monogamous,

0:34.2

polyamorous, swinging, casually dating,

0:37.1

or if you just do relationships differently,

0:39.5

we see you and we're here for you. Fongs I know I did.

0:50.0

Forson made a form myself to... on this episode of the multi-ammery podcast we are talking about shame in relationships in this two-parter in this part one. We're going to be taking a deep dive into why humans evolved to feel shame in the first place, what does it actually look like, how does it show up, as well as some of the theories about why we've developed that and how it can be good for us and also harmful for us.

1:24.0

And then next week in part two we're going to go on to talk specifically about

1:29.0

how that shows up in non-traditional relationships like polyamary,

1:33.5

as well as some concrete ways to counteract the shame

1:37.2

that we level at ourselves

1:38.7

and some healthy ways of applying and using shame in our lives.

1:43.0

So is it just me or is shame like real hot these days?

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