Resources

Resources
Poly Links
General Information
• Polyamory - What it is and what it isn't
• The Varieties of Intimate Relationship
• How to F*** Up a Poly Relationship
• Never Do This: Poly Mistakes
• The Key Factor to Polyamory Relationship Success
• A Brief History of Polyamory
• Humorous Look at the Different Flavors of Nonmonogamy
• Support group for POLY partners in poly-mono pairings
• Support group for MONOGAMOUS partners in poly-mono pairings
Jealousy
• Some Reasons Why We Feel Jealous
• Some Tools for Dealing with Your Jealousy
• How NOT to Deal with Jealousy
• Making Peace with Jealousy in Polyamorous Relationships (1.2 M Download)
Agreements in Poly Relationships
• Creating Empowering Relationship Agreements
• Additional Relationship and Safer Sex Agreements Information
• A Secondary's Bill of Rights
Other Poly Resources
• Relationship Style Preferences
• Opening a Monogamous Relationship (30 K Download)
Books
• Polyamory Communication Survival Kit by Robert McGarey
• Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits by Deborah M. Anapol
• Love in Abundance: A Counselor's Advice on Open Relationships, by Kathy Labriola.
• Five Languages of Love by Gary Chapman
• The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt, Greenery Press 1997
• Lesbian Polyfidelity by Celeste West
Workshops and Services
• Kathy Labriola, an excellent counselor in the San Francisco area
• How to be Assertive and Loving Too
Conferences and Magazines
Online Discussions
• The Usenet newsgroup alt.polyamory.
• If you're familiar with IRC, there's a polyamory channel there.
• There are also quite a few poly communities on the Livejournal blog system (one main one called Polyamory and several spin-offs, like Polymarriage, Mono-Poly and Poly_BDSM).
• There are also forums on a few poly-specific sites:
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