Polyamory and Non-Monogamous Relationships

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, […]
November 13, 2020

Weddings: A Blue Moon Marriage for Two Goth Romantics

On Halloween night, under a blue moon, Vivienne Vermuth and Jason Perkins, both dressed in black, were married after a dating life that Mr. Perkins describes […]