Page Turner's Blog, page 27

But What If They Don’t Follow the Breakup Plan?

All a breakup plan does is help assure you that your delivery of bad news wasn't cruel. It doesn't ensure that the other person won't take it hard or that it'll be a painless process for you.

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And Now We Are 5! Happy Birthday, Poly Land!

Happy 5th birthday, Poly Land!

Five years of daily posts. Thank you for being part of this wonderful project.

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What Are Comet Relationships?

A comet relationship is a romantic and/or sexual connection that passes through one’s life in an intermittent way. Yes, just like a comet only passes by Earth occasionally.

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The Focus Group Effect, an Unexpected Upside of Polyamory

There is something extremely powerful in having real-time simultaneous deep connections.

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When a Bunch of Bad Things Happen, It’s Easy to Think You Deserved It

There's no way of getting around it. When a bunch of bad things happen, it's easy to think you deserved it.

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People Care More Intensely About Loss Than Gain

Loss aversion is an interesting phenomenon. Generally speaking, loss aversion is the phenomenon whereby human beings experience greater negative emotions when they lose something than they get a positive emotional boost from gaining the same thing. 

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It’s Important to Know How Unreliable a Given Narrator Is

Over the years, I've grown to appreciate that the unreliable narrator is not just a literary device... it's also a fact of life.

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How Things Are Going & What I’m Working On

What a month it has been...

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I’m Learning to Be a Gentle Self-Parent Instead of an Abusive One

The outer result looks the same whether I'm self-abusing bruteforcing or gentle self-parenting. But it feels completely different inside my head. It makes all the difference.

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“Wait, Are You Saying that Everyone Has to Be Polyamorous?”

"Umm...," a reader writes. "I read your article from August 5, and I'm super confused. Are you saying that everyone has to be polyamorous?"

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