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Multiamory offers support and advice for modern relationships. Whether you are monogamous, polyamorous, swinging, casually dating, or if you just do relationships differently, we see you and we’re here for you. Multiamory is a proud member of Pleasure Podcasts. For network details, contact [email protected].
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Multiamory turns research and candid conversation into practical language for jealousy, loneliness, dating fatigue, and relationships beyond familiar scripts.
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships examines how people build, name, and maintain relationships when inherited scripts prove insufficient.
A partner's partner becomes an in-law analogy, and your relationship vocabulary gets a little less intimidating.
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A thoughtful relationship conversation that favors nuance over rules.
Multiamory uses a museum metaphor to revisit the relationship escalator, showing how partners can pass through milestones in different orders and still assign different meaning to the same stop.
A thoughtful look at aging, comparison, and the work of meeting jealousy with compassion.
This conversation treats comparison with younger people as more than a passing insecurity. It lingers on aging, the shifts it brings to a relationship, and the way jealousy can sit beside tenderness without canceling either feeling.
A 12th-century detour that ties courtly love to modern dating habits and makes a solid case for honesty.
Multiamory goes back to the 12th century with Professor Annalisa Castaldo and uses courtly love to frame a familiar modern pattern: putting a partner on a pedestal rarely ends well.
A clear look at why fights over time are often really fights over the kind of closeness people want.
Some fights about time are really fights about access: wanting a protected stretch where it feels like only two people exist. The episode treats that tension with care, keeping the focus on the difference between wanting more hours and wanting a specific kind of one-on-one…
A clear look at loneliness, with a sharp read on how gender scripts shape who asks for help.
Multiamory treats loneliness as a social problem instead of a personal flaw. It pairs recent headlines with research to show the gap between how often loneliness shows up and how it gets expressed.
A grounded case for play as a practical tool for connection.
The episode treats play as a way back to attention, especially when scrolling and routine autopilot start to take over. Gary Ware joins the Multiamory crew and the folks at Normalizing Non-Monogamy to argue that play can pull people back toward the ones sitting right in front of…
A practical guide to the everyday factors that can make shared home life work or clash.
This Multiamory episode revisits a 2019 conversation about cohabiting, with a re-edit that folds in material that was once kept for Patreon. It stays grounded in the day-to-day questions around living together, especially work hours, schedules, and mismatched social lives, while…
Queer spirituality here feels like a practice, not a slogan.
This episode treats queer and polyamorous life as something built through ritual, repetition, and shared naming, not as a fixed tradition handed down intact.
Dating profiles, heard before seen.
Unfiltered adult desire, decoded in real time.
Group-chat honesty for messy modern relationships.
Blunt romance talk with an argument built in.
Firm dating coaching with faith and polarity.
The conversation opens by drawing a useful line.
Multiamory hosts discuss 'play as resistance' with Gary Ware (Breakthrough Play), framing intentional play as antidote to modern burnout.
Multiamory 572, “Building Commitment Off the Relationship Escalator,” starts with Mike reading a Reddit metaphor from LikeASinkingStar that compares non-escalator relationships to wandering through a museum together.
Multiamory's remastered episode 215, "The Science of Jealousy," opens in Hong Kong with Emily revisiting a 2019 pre-pandemic conversation about a topic the show says is central to non-monogamy discourse.
Multiamory tackles a listener question from a new mom, nine months postpartum, who feels intense distress every time her anchor boyfriend Andrew goes on a date with his new partner.
Multiamory’s episode 557 centers on sexual rejection, the “mid-no,” and how repeated no’s can turn into resentment in long-term relationships.
The largest study of non-monogamy relationships reveals surprising patterns.
Multiamory frames “toxic individualism” as a question about where relationship responsibility belongs, especially in polyamory and hinge dynamics.
Multiamory revisits its 2016 “Five Mistakes Poly Noobs Make” episode and expands the list after asking Instagram followers what polyamory mistakes still show up.
The Multiamory podcast hosts discuss polyamory under duress, exploring the spectrum from temporary stress to outright coercion.
Multiamory #551 answers a listener question from “Seeing double in Da Big Apple” about jealousy when a cis boyfriend dates trans men who feel too similar to the listener, a trans man.
Multiamory's episode 566 brings in Field data analyst Cy Dusk and head of UX research Alexandra Kilpatrick to unpack a peer-reviewed consensual non-monogamy study with almost 6,000 respondents.
Multiamory’s “Help!
Multiamory’s 563rd episode is framed as a resource for parents, family members, and anyone told a loved one is non-monogamous, with a personal opening about a 2012 coming-out conversation that included being poly, not straight, and no longer Christian.
The hosts look at how different nonmonogamous relationship styles might learn from one another.
Multiamory episode 549 maps Siddhartha’s eight worldly concerns onto modern relationships, using the Buddha’s framework of 'pleasure and pain, loss and gain, praise and blame, fame and shame.' The hosts tie those categories to concrete examples like fear of criticism, praise kinks, breakup anxiety, and the way non-monogamy can trigger time-and-loss concerns.
The episode opens on bubble time, that feeling that it should be just you and one partner.
Multiamory 552, “Why Your Partner Doesn’t Plan Stuff (And What You Can Do About It),” centers on the idea of “planfulness” and opens with Jace describing anxiety about scheduling when other people are affected.
Multiamory brings on Dr.
The hosts talk about dating burnout and fatigue, starting with the sense that a lot of people are just worn out by dating.
Multiamory episode 556 focuses on how much to share with a partner about other relationships, using listener questions about disclosure, privacy, and timing.
Texas attorney Stacey McLarty discusses the unique legal and social challenges faced by polyamorous individuals in conservative states, offering practical advice on estate planning, community building, and non-legal strategies to protect non-traditional relationships.
The MultiAmory Podcast interviews Professor Annalisa Castaldo about the Art of Courtly Love, a 12th-century medieval manuscript by Andreas Kapalanis.
Saying you practice relationship anarchy means nothing by itself - here's how to actually figure out what someone wants.
Multiamory revisits a 2019 conversation about cohabiting and gives it a fresh edit.
The hosts talk about loneliness as both a private feeling and a social script.
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Promotion of a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals in Italy, followed by discussion of Gottman's perpetual problems in relationships.
This episode promotes a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals in Italy, focusing on emotional well-being and community.
This episode announces a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals in Italy and discusses a partnership with a dating app to shape the future of the community.
This episode promotes a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals and discusses the difference between intimacy and fusion in relationships.
Promotion of a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals in Italy, discussing emotional challenges and community in non-monogamy.
Promotion of a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals in Italy, emphasizing emotional connection and community.
Promotion of a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals in Italy, followed by a philosophical reflection on sex.
This episode promotes a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals in Italy and discusses the value of embracing solitude.
Promotion of a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals in Italy, addressing emotional challenges in non-monogamy.
Promotion of a somatic retreat for polyamorous individuals in Italy, followed by discussion on forming unexpected kinship through libido.