401 - Are Elders Better at Polyamory? with Kathy Labriola

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

4.9 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Kathy Labriola is back to discuss her most recent book with us, "Polyamorous Elders: Aging in Open Relationships," some of the inspiration that drove her to write about aging in polyamory, cultural narratives that affect how we perceive polyamorous elders, and more. Kathy Labriola is a nurse, counselor and hypnotherapist in private practice in Berkeley, California. Her mission is providing affordable mental health services to alternative communities. She has been a card-carrying bisexual and polyamorist for fifty years. She is a political activist and community organizer. As you can guess, she is extra crunchy and lives in a housing co-op, rides a bike, and raises chickens and organic vegetables. She is the author of four books on consensually nonmonogamous relationships: Love in Abundance, The Jealousy Workbook, The Polyamory Break-up Book, and Polyamorous Elders.Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.com/join. 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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0:00.0	My experience is that Polly people seem to have a lot less regret than other people
0:10.4	because they have just kind of gone for it,
0:14.0	essentially done whatever they wanted.
0:17.0	You know, people who are not probably have more of a tendency to say,
0:22.0	well, I I was I care too much about what other people
0:26.9	fought for me and I did what society expected of me rather than what I actually
0:32.1	wanted to do.
0:33.5	Whereas Polly people tend to feel like they really did pursue the things
0:37.3	they wanted to do in life.
0:39.0	However, almost every Polly person my age or older that I talked to had at least some regrets about
0:47.4	excuse my language not knowing what the fuck they were doing when they first
0:52.1	started being polyammers.
0:55.0	Oh, I have that regret.
0:56.0	Oh, I've got tons of those regrets already, yeah.
0:59.0	Welcome to the Multiammery podcast.
1:02.0	I'm Jace. I'm Emily. I'm Dettaker. We believe in
1:04.9	looking to the future of relationships, not maintaining the status quo of the
1:09.1	past. So whether you're monogamous, polyamorous, swinging, casually dating, or if you just do relationships
1:15.8	differently, we see you and we're here for you.
1:18.8	Fongs I know I did.
1:25.0	Forcing me to form myself to fix.
1:34.4	On this episode of the Multiamery Podcast, we are joined by one of our favorite
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