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Ethical Non-Monogamy, Elevated: A Deep Dive into Polywise by Jessica Fern

  Source: Barnes and Noble A New Perspective on Love and Relationships Relationships have evolved far beyond the traditional structures we once assumed were the only path to love and commitment. As more people explore ethical non-monogamy, the need for guidance, clarity, and emotional intelligence has never been greater. Enter Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships , a book that offers a roadmap for those who seek to practice non-monogamy with intention, integrity, and wisdom. Finding Clarity in Complexity Many people approach polyamory with excitement, but quickly find themselves overwhelmed by the emotional challenges that arise. Jealousy, communication breakdowns, and social stigma can turn what was meant to be a liberating experience into one filled with doubt and confusion. This is where Polywise steps in—it doesn’t just tell you how to be polyamorous; it helps you understand why different relationship dynamics succeed or struggle, offering practical strat...
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Still Me. Just New Slogans and Such.

  New year, new me, right? Isn't that what everyone says at the start of a new year?  I am still here. I am still slogging through drafts on my computer that I know I need to finish.  So much has happened in life in the last few years, and sometimes I wonder if I should even finish them. But, I know I need to. It has to be done. 
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Work In Process : Just a Little Something

 I've mentioned a few times I've been in a bit of a writer's slump lately. I have been staring at the same drafts for moons now, unsure of what to do with them, where to take the story, blah blah blah....  I thought a lot of it had to do with the fact that I had a lot of work published that I no longer loved. So, I removed it with the idea that I would tell the stories behind them. Now, that is just sitting in drafts, not because I don't love the idea of having an autobiographical anthology of sorts, but it's been more of a time issue with all of the things going on in life. Every once in a while, a blurb of an idea will come from my keyboard. This is one of them. I am not sure what I am going to do with it yet. If I should create a new story, new character, new everything or, if this should be inserted into the already started tale that's been sitting patiently for me to add to it.  We shall see. Unlike some writers who sit and crank out tales from start to fin...
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Writer's Thoughts: Fun Fact

  Writer's Thoughts: Fun Fact Writer's Thoughts: Fun fact -- Being polyamorous does not mean having multiple partners or that a polaym person is out there having sex with multiple people. To be polyamorous is to have the capacity to develop close romantic, platonic, or queerplatonic, flirtationships, situationships, or comet relationships with multiple people. You're polyamorous whether you have 1 partner or 10 partners or no partners.  Polyamory is about the ability to love multiple people, not about whether or not you are currently involved in intimate relationships with multiple people. Read that again -- it's about the ABILITY TO... the freedom, the openness -- all of the things that monogamists tell you is wrong or not allowed in a relationship.  Polyamory = relationship based. Swinging = sex-based. Two different things, although you can be one, the other, or both, and there is some overlap in the lifestyles.
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Non Monogamy Reading and Follow List

  A. I've personally read all of these and recommend them to anyone in any sort of ENM relationship as these were all recommended to me at some time or another over the years: The Ethical Slut by Janet Hardy  Polysecure by Jessica Fern More Than Two   by Franklin Veaux Polyamory and Jealousy : More that Two Essentials Guide   I Hate You Don't Leave Me by Jerald J. Kreisman Designer Relationships by Mark Micheals (for all ENM LS) Alpha Female Bible by Michelle Martin (all types of relationships - the healthy kind for the more dominant woman)   Swingers Little Helper by Georiga Fuchs (for swingers) Unfuck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationship, Sex, and Dating by Faith G Harper PHd. Happy Life in an Open Relationship by Susan Wenzel B.This list I have not personally read but see them mentioned all the time in ENM groups: (I will try to update them as I read them) Building Open Relationships by Liz Powell (geared towards poly and swingers) In...
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Happy to Report: She Writes Things - Anthology Update

  I tell you what.... time sure has flown by since my last post. I don't even know how that happened. But I do know the anthology isn't ready yet.  I have removed all of the separate works (books) from the retailer's sites. I had to wait a period for all of those to be removed and am happy to report that they are all gone.  That was important because if I were to have those lingering and tried to upload the anthology, the retailers, Amazon especially, would ping me for duplicate and/or plagiarized content, and it would turn into this giant headache. While I have all of my documents in Word and saved to an external hard drive and on the cloud, I put them all into one large Google Doc. Easy for me to edit and work on using whatever device I wanted.  Well, with a document that long, my s pell checker and Grammarly were playing very ugly with each other, and it was slowing down the typing and editing process, causing a large amount of frustration.  I then decided to...
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Changes Are Coming

                                                                Photo Credit: Pinterest Never, ever be afraid of change.  I sit here writing this post well into New Year Eve, knowing tomorrow brings a whole new year with so many opportunities to share some more words.  I have been writing little bits here and there, but not the way I used to over the years. For the longest time I thought it was writer's block but when I published the latest story this year, I realized, it's not just writer's block. It's that I don't want to write what I used to write. I am not that writer anymore.  I don't want to use another pen name like so many others do. I don't want to start over as someone else.  So, I have decided it's time to take those old stories out of...
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