When It Goes Wrong

Couples seeking therapy during or after consensual non-monogamy face what clinical psychologist David Ley has identified as a dual challenge: finding

Starting over — whether re-entering the lifestyle after crisis or carrying lifestyle experience into a new relationship — requires what attachment res

Betrayal within consensual non-monogamy — what researchers Conley, Moors, Matsick, and Ziegler have distinguished from conventional infidelity by noti

Re-monogamization — the deliberate return from a consensual non-monogamous arrangement to sexual exclusivity — is what relationship therapist Esther P

The desire asymmetry — when one partner in a consensual non-monogamous arrangement wants to return to exclusivity while the other wants to continue —

Jealousy in consensual non-monogamy functions as information — what attachment theorists including Jessica Fern describe as a signal from the nervous

When romantic feelings develop between a lifestyle participant and a third party — what polyamory researchers including Elisabeth Sheff have documente

A relational dynamic becomes harmful — what clinicians working with consensual non-monogamy describe as container collapse — when the architecture tha

Relationship dissolution within consensual non-monogamy involves complications that conventional breakups do not — including the management of shared

Advocacy without honesty is propaganda. That sentence is the reason this series exists, and it is a principle that clinical psychologist David Ley mod