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🗓️ 21 March 2024
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The classic storybook version of happy ever after typically involves meeting someone, falling in love, getting married and starting a family. But what if that dream isn’t one you share? What happens when the way you define romantic relationships and love doesn’t align with societal norms? Enter polyamory, popularized by reality shows like the Peacock network’s Couple to Throuple. Are we ready to open up our definition of love to accommodate these other relationships? Joining The Excerpt to discuss ethical non-monogamy is Leanne Yau, non-monogamy educator, sex positivity advocate, and queer therapist in training.
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0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to The Ex excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. |
0:14.0 | Today is Thursday March 21st, 2024 and this is a special episode of the excerpt. The classic storybook version of Happy Ever After often involves meeting someone falling in love, getting married, and starting a family. |
0:34.0 | But what if that dream isn't one you share? |
0:36.0 | What happens when the way you define romantic relationships and love doesn't align with societal norms, |
0:43.2 | inter polyamary, popularized by reality shows like the Peacock networks |
0:48.8 | Coupled to Thruple. |
0:50.0 | Are we ready to open up our definition of love to accommodate these other relationships? |
0:55.2 | Here to discuss ethical non-monogamy with me is Leanne Yao, non-monogamy educator, sex positivity advocate, and queer therapist in training who also |
1:05.8 | holds a law degree from Oxford University. |
1:08.8 | Thanks for joining us, Leanne. |
1:10.5 | Yeah, happy to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me. |
1:13.4 | First, what is polyamary and how does it differ from being in an open relationship |
1:20.0 | or just casually dating around? Polyamary, it comes from the Greek and Latin roots meaning many love, |
1:26.0 | and so, you know, as the name suggests, it's about having multiple loving relationships, |
1:31.0 | multiple romantic relationships, as opposed to an open relationship |
1:35.2 | where you typically have one romantic partner and then you have other additional partners who may be more |
1:40.4 | casual or sexual in nature, still intimate, but you know there is very much a hierarchy with one romantic partner at the top. |
1:48.0 | And casually dating is well, you know, dating, you're not in a relationship you are exploring you're discovering yourself you're you know |
1:56.0 | trying different flavors and polyamary is very much different from that. |
2:03.0 | It's about engaging in serious intimate relationships |
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