LIVE CHAT: On Coping with "Firsts", Comparisons, and Wanting More Time Together (Patreon)

Here's the video and transcript from yesterday's Live Chat! The next one will be some time mid/late summer, I hope to see you there again.

Chapters:

00.00 Intro
00.52 How to mindfully separate from a distrustful partner?
04.08 Coping with dates who don't want heavy talks
06.13 We tried restructuring, but do I just need to end it?
09.05 What if we think community members are unethical?
16.03 How do I say I want to be a priority, but not pressure them?
21.00 Am I bad at polyam if I only want one partner?
23.10 How to get over body image issues, especially comparing to metas?
27.22 How to deal with anxious "firsts" in non-monogamy?
33.15 When in a new place, how do you not feel so lonely?
36.27 Grieving a triad breakup, and friends say it's polyamory's fault
41.22 What if I feel like a placeholder partner, getting my meta's leftovers?
44.35 How to handle reconnection after conflict?
46.40 Negotiating a new mono/polyam dynamic
50.00 Solo but forced to cohabitate, how to dispel the optics of escalation?
54.05 Outro

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Automated transcription attached at the bottom of this post, via Otter AI

xx

Morgan