Category: Finance
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Polyamory Budgeting
Today’s post is for poly folk who share expenses. I wrote it assuming a joint household, but the same basic ideas apply to folks who live separately and share expenses. For some poly folk, all household income and all bills go into a family pot and (at least in theory) are handled jointly. How this…
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Budgeting for Dates
Obviously, I’ve starting this series with the low hanging fruit. Don’t worry, we’ll get into the side of poly finances that aren’t about dates and dating soon. Anyone with an individual budget can budget for dates the same way they budget for anything else. Create a line item in your budget for “dates” and pick…
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Polyamory: Who Pays for Dates?
This isn’t a poly thing so much as a dating thing. But it comes up enough I wanted to tackle it here. In “traditional” American dating, the man asked the woman and the man paid for the date. As social mores have changed, the issue has become confused. Some people “go dutch” with both people…
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Financial Entwinement
Before we get deep into poly finances, I want to take a minute to discuss entwinement and specifically financial entwinement. Polyamorous relationships exist on at least three spectrums: emotional, sexual, and entwinement. Emotional: ranging from affection to love Sexual: ranging from “none” to…well, whatever you can imagine Entwinement: ranging from keeping separate lives to joint…
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Polyamory Finances Blog Series
This blog series will be mostly for poly folk living in entwined couples and entwined groups. Most solo and single poly folk will generally find their finances no different from any other single person. For the RAs, whether or not this blog series will be helpful will depend on your specific relationships and whether or…