Category: Polyamory Toolkit
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The First Tool – Polyamory
From ‘The Polyamory Toolkit” by Dan Williams and Dawn Williams (2019) TOOL #1 – DEVELOPING YOUR WHY Dan says… I can certainly recall more than once shaking my head and wondering “Why am I even bothering with this poly thing!?” The first time Dawn went on a date with another person…
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Self Publishing – Next Power Exchange Book – Turning our Polyam books into audiobooks
Self Publishing – Next Power Exchange Book – Turning our Polyam books into audiobooks Eleven years ago when we had ‘Living M/s’ published…..self-publishing was complicated and not common. We had thought of self-publishing, but a publisher reached out to us when they heard Dr. Bob was writing the forward. So, yay!!! our first book…
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Team Polyamory
We just got a request to review a textbook writing on Relationship Anarchy and had to turn them down. Basically, we know what Relationship Anarchy is, but it’s not how we do polyamory. As a matter of fact, we’ll be writing a class soon on ‘Team Polyamory’. I’m not sure what the title will be…
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The Polyamory Toolkit
When Dan and I got together in 1999, we decided that we were going to design our own relationship. We had no interest in being monogamous. We had no idea what that meant, as we didn’t know of anyone that lived that way. Not only were we going to be ok with each other having…
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How To Meet People
Exert from The Polyamory Toolkit Some would say that being polyamorous isn’t about the number of partners you have; that you can be in a two person relationship or even single and not dating anyone and still identify as polyamorous. And although I agree with this, polyamory in action is about having partners. So…
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When you have communication disconnects, try Porch Time
I used to have some less than nice thoughts about one of my partners partners. I thought they were slimy at best. But my partner loved this person, so was I supposed to share it? Stuff it? How would feel if someone told me that my choice in a romantic partner was poor? One of…
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Fair vs Equal
One year, Karen and I took a five day cruise for vacation. It was great! Being able to unwind, a very lax agenda, room service, romantic meals by moonlight, just a fantastic experience. When we returned, Dawn was happy to see me and, after letting me go on about what I great time I had,…