“At the end of the day, it really comes down to this: do you want to love more than one person at a time? Are you ok with your partners loving more than one person at time?
If the answer is yes, there is a good chance that you are polyamorous.
– Franklin Veaux
What is polyamory? What’s a sign that someone might be suited for polyamory? What are some common mistakes people make when exploring polyamory for the first time?
Learn the answer to these questions and more in this week’s episode of the Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the polyamorous writer and educator Franklin Veaux on Beyond Monogamy.
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about Franklin Veaux:
Franklin has been ideologically polyamorous his entire life, functionally polyamorous since 1984, and writing about polyamory since 1998. Monogamy has never made much sense to him. (When he heard a fairy tale about a princess forced to choose between two handsome princes, he thought “everyone knows princesses live in castles. And castles are big enough for both princes. So why does she have to choose?”)
He started practicing non-monogamy from the moment he started becoming aware that boys and girls are different. Along the way, he’s made just about every mistake it’s possible to make in polyamorous relationships. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.
Today, he is married, has several partners, and lives in Portland, Oregon. He is a professional writer who writes fiction and nonfiction on everything from ethics to transhumanism to computer security. He is the author of The Game Changer: A Memoir of Disruptive Love, the coauthor of the nonfiction book More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory and the steampunk alternate history novel Black Iron, and has a new novel coming out in 2021 coauthored with Eunice Hung.
Stay Connected With Franklin Veaux:
- https://franklinveaux.com/
- https://www.morethantwo.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/franklinveaux
- https://twitter.com/franklinveaux
- https://www.quora.com/profile/Franklin-Veaux
People mentioned in the show
- Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs
- Helen Fisher, author of Why Him? Why Her? and Anatomy of Love
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