Polyamory and Non-Monogamous Relationships

January 17, 2025

A Marriage Starts to Unravel on the Honeymoon

The perils (and surprising benefits!) of getting hitched while still seeing other people. That my husband, Reed, was texting the other woman just three days into […]
January 19, 2024

My Relationships Have No Clothes

I have no moral objection to infidelity. For me, sex is just sex. He and I had been friends in graduate school in New Orleans for […]
May 17, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Deeply in Love With a Polyamorous Woman’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. More than 30 Minutes Together Windows down, music blasting as we drive over […]
May 16, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Night Before She Moves Away’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. More than 30 Minutes Together Windows down, music blasting as we drive over […]
May 16, 2023

Interested in Polyamory? Somerville, Massachusetts May Be the City for You

Somerville, Mass., has passed laws granting rights to people in polyamorous relationships — and it’s just getting started. Jace Knight had heard about Somerville, Mass., while […]
June 17, 2022

Non-Monogamy Advocates Ask Facebook to Be More Open

A group supporting those who practice polyamory and other forms of “ethical non-monogamy” want more relationship-status options on Facebook. A group that supports ethical non-monogamy sent […]
February 11, 2022

Love Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game

I thought the open relationship was the problem. But it was me. I’ve always been wary of sports, competition and falling in love. So growing up, […]
June 30, 2021

Modern Love Podcast: When Two Open Marriages Collide

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher “This situation — entering the hospital room of my wife’s lover — risked exposing our oddness […]
April 23, 2021

My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third?

My mind could rationalize polyamory, but my heart rebelled. I had been wandering the liquor store for some minutes when the clerk approached and asked if […]
April 2, 2021

My Choice Isn’t Marriage or Loneliness

I thought I had a classic fear of commitment, but it’s more complicated than that. I broke up with my boyfriend of five years during quarantine, […]