The Fawning Abyss
Instead of fighting, fleeing, or freezing, those who fawn will placate the source of their distress with being agreeable and helpful, relinquishing assertiveness and boundaries in exchange for a sense of safety.
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Twenty years into her marriage, Kat and her husband faced head-on the great underlying fear of most monogamous people: My partner wants to have sex with other people. For them, that truth led to a rollercoaster of new sexual and romantic adventures...
Instead of fighting, fleeing, or freezing, those who fawn will placate the source of their distress with being agreeable and helpful, relinquishing assertiveness and boundaries in exchange for a sense of safety.
Continue reading →Author and researcher of sociology and anthropology Brenda Wiebe has written Catch & Release: How I Used Science to Hack my Love Life, a review of different relationship patterns throughout human history in combination with her own intimate journal entries.
Continue reading →At the same time, I feel an immediate sense of loss because I know that they're not going to be as available to me. Then I feel guilty for being selfish and clingy.
Continue reading →You may find yourself liking and/or loving those things too, metamours turn into paramours, and you may settle into some polyam smugness about how great you are all are at this non-monogamy thing.
Continue reading →Monogamous people usually only need to worry about figuring out one of these but we ethically non-monogamous folks tend get multiple styles in multiple relationships. Whee! So lucky!
Continue reading →Sometimes a relationship doesn't work the way you think it will. Sometimes you go into something expecting it to look and feel a certain way, travel a certain path, and as you go, it turns out that is not what you (or the other person(s)) wanted after all.
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