There's nothing wrong really with that idea of the relationship escalator. It's not bad and you know

entwignment in general is not bad but when there's just this default

that this is the way that things are this is you know unavoidable if you want to

continue growing in a relationship or becoming more

entwined in a relationship that's where we tend to take issue I think and

where we tend to question like what is it that you really want in a relationship.

Welcome to the multi-amory podcast. I'm Jace. I'm Emily and I'm

Dettiker. We believe in looking to the future of relationships, not maintaining the status quo of the past.

So whether you're monogamous, polyamorous, swinging, casually dating, or if you just do relationships differently, we see you and we're here for you. I did. Forson made it for myself to fit.

On this episode of the Multieemory podcast we're talking about shifting an existing

relationship into something more entangled or somehow escalating that

relationship.

This could be moving from friendship to dating,

from friends with benefits,

to a more romantic dating,

could be a comet or secondary partner, moving to being a more primary type of partner

or any number of other escalations.

Regardless of whether you think of these in terms of getting more serious, which is kind of the more traditional way to think about this, or if you're a total relationship anarchist,

we can't deny that there's emotional, social, and logistical aspects to increasing our levels of

entanglement with others.

And so in this episode, we're going to get into all of that and talk about some things that you can do to help make that transition better.

So I guess to start out, let's just clarify a little bit about what we mean by this it's it's challenging because trying to look it up

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