So your partner just dropped the P-bomb – they want to try polyamory. Meanwhile, you’re perfectly happy keeping things between just the two of you. Before you start panic-scrolling through ...

I’m in what’s known as a throuple. The easiest way to explain this is to say it’s a couple but with three people instead of two. We’ve been together as a throuple for three years so this isn’t our ...

Is it fair to say that we’ve reached peak poly? Nearly half of dating-age Gen Zers are open to a non-monogamous set-up, according to a recent Tinder survey. 62% say that they’ve actively fantasised ...

Thanks to many cultural shifts and an increase in more progressive worldviews over the past few decades, heteronormative monogamy isn’t necessarily the standard anymore when it comes to relationships.

In an era of changing relationships and new expressions of love, it can be difficult — even intimidating — to understand your spot on the spectrum. It might seem all the more appealing to maintain the ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? Recently, polyamory has become seemingly popular in mainstream media. It’s ...

I first saw the term “nesting partner” — a term used for a live-in partner in poly relationships — in early 2020, when the world was unknowingly teetering on the brink of disaster and rebirth. Jim’s ...

In July 2020, Somerville, Massachusetts, became the first U.S. city to extend domestic partnership rights to groups of more than two who identify as polyamorous—that is, multi-spousal. The Boston-area ...