We're talking about more of the serial monogamy side of things or just the dating and pursuing relationships as an escape from confronting something else or some other uncomfortable feeling.

I definitely think that I did more of that, well both during my monogamous times of my life and then also after becoming

polyamorous seeking that you know that excitement of getting into a relationship

or kind of that idea of a romance as a way to distract from whatever

else was going on, you know, being stressed about money, being stressed about not having a job and I guess to answer that question about would I

still be polyamorous if I wasn't I found that something that's really drastically

changed in my life but I'm still very much a polyamorous person.

Welcome to the multi-amory podcast. I'm Jace. I'm Emily and I'm dead occur. 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 know I did.

forcing me to for myself to fit. On this controversial so we'll first be diving into what addiction is how

addictive behaviors can manifest in our relationships how addiction differs

when we talk about behaviors and some of the differences between healthy

polyamory, healthy dating, and love addiction.

Have you all heard this term bandied about before?

Love addiction?

Yes, yes. I feel like sex addiction is the one that I've heard more frequently, but love addiction that's interesting. I guess when I think of love addiction I think of like serial monogamous person.

Really? Interesting. Talk about that a little bit more. Well somebody that instead of taking time in between relationships,

they decide that I need to get immediately

into another relationship because I myself were this tied up

in it, or I simply don't want to be alone and I love that feeling of being in love I love that feeling of a new relationship perhaps which I know is something we're going to talk about later in this episode.

Yeah, so we will hit that a little bit later, but at first I wanted to present to you

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