The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory
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Average rating4.3
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Average rating4.3
No one likes a know-it-all, but everyone loves a girl with brains and heart. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, offering relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack. This practical guidebook will help women break free of the mold of traditional monogamy, without the constraints of jealousy, possessiveness, insecurity, and competition. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory incorporates interviews and real-world advice from women of all ages in nontraditional relationships, as well as exercises for building self-awareness, confidence in communication, and strategies for managing and eliminating jealousy. If you're curious about exploring group sex, opening up your current monogamous relationship, or ready to “come out” as polyamorous, this book covers it all! Whether you're a seasoned graduate, a timid freshman, or somewhere in between, you'll learn how to discover and craft unique relationships that are healthy, happy, sexy, and tailor-made for you. Because when it comes to your love life, being a know-it-all is actually a great thing to be.
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I think this book is amazing in understanding the basics of non-monogamy. However, it was a little too focused on opening up an already existing relationship (what about people who are single and wish to join a polycule?)
A great summary for anybody who either wants to pursue polyamory or is just interested what's up. Some parts can be useful to people who just want to have better relationships in general, for example a part about jealousy. The book includes these cool questions and little homeworks such as “What does romantic love mean to you? What does it physically feel like?” that get you thinking about what you really want out of relationships. There's a little history, examples of the common relationship structure, things people are most afraid of, or people might ask about the most often. It's this very extended FAQ about polyamory but very useful and fluent read ❤️
