Category: Family
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Family Name – Decisions, Decisions
This post really reflects my original bias towards highly entwined group relationships. The original was also heavily heteronormative. I think I’ve managed to remove all the heteronormativity, but the focus on entwined group relationships is kind of built into the topic. Also the usual grammar and readability fixes. Revised Jan 17, 2017. As seems to…
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Pregnancy and Polyamory: Picking Baby Names
Did my best to removed gendered language and fixed some really poorly written sentences. Other than that, it’s much the same as it always was. Revised 1/16/17. Picking baby names is one of the great joys of pregnancy. Also a real pain in the you-know-what. There are two extremes of name picking: those who have…
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Random Babble Post – For the Children
I fixed some typos, otherwise I’m letting this stand, bad grammar and all. Since I first wrote this I have seen many polyam families navigate healthy endings to relationships between polyam partners and children. But I think the central point here stands. Don’t forcibly sever your or your partner’s parental relationship with children in the…
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Polyamory Holidays
Some minor changes and updates here. Mostly edited for readability and to remove an old bias towards group relationships. This post originally went up in July just before the US Independence Day, but with US Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and a host of other holidays in the next month+ it’s even more relevant now. Tomorrow…
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Polyamory and Pregnancy: Planning for the Unexpected
Revised 11/6/16. Minor updates here, fixed some typos and that kind of thing. I ran across a discussion on a polyamory forum once where a woman said she absolutely could not deal with the possibility of her husband getting someone else pregnant. A bunch of people were trying to reassure her of how unlikely it…
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Polyamory Meal Planning
Revised and re-posted 10/11/16. My polycule has changed several times over the past few years, and the details of my meal lists have changed as people moved in and out of my life. But I still keep these three lists. Main changes here are fixing grammar and typos. In a few weeks, my metamour will…
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Formal Invitations for Poly Folk
The nice thing about formal invitations is you are expected to list everyone who is invited. If someone’s name isn’t on there, they aren’t invited. This solves a lot of this “who is included?” of informal invitations. This post generally assumes you are issuing an invite to people who are out about being poly. If…
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Polyamory Etiquette: Meeting Family About Town
The great thing about living in a small town or close-knit neighborhood is you are always running into people you know. The terrifying thing about being poly in a small town or close-knit neighborhood is…you are always running into people you know. Meeting your SOs parents for the first time is always interesting. Meeting your…
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Etiquette for Polyamory Partners and Children
I talked about interactions between poly partners and children a couple of times in the Raising Children in a Poly Family blog series. But this apparently an issue a lot of people stress about, so I’m going to pull it all together in one place. This article assumes that you want your children to meet…