"I Love You, Man" is high key a polyam rom-com (Patreon)

Happy new year!

Some exciting news. I'm kicking off a new series of video essays about non-monogamy in film and tv (a few of which I covered years ago in written Patreon reviews, but I'll retire those versions as I go). Polyam media analysis will gradually become a big focus of my work. We need examples, and I can only offer my own, so let's look at non-monogamy in pop culture, and see what we see!

I'm also launching a podcast with a partner in the Spring, where we'll collect an anthology of real-world polyam stories.

Long form resources and Patron-only Live chats will stay in the weekly rotation, too. The next Patreon Live Chat will be NEXT SUNDAY - January 7th at 11AM pdt L.A. / 2PM est N.Y. / 8PM cest Berlin. The link will go out that morning. You can join at any point during the hour and ask whatever you want.

I hope you enjoy this first media analysis. I'd love to know what you think.

Timecode:

• 0.00 Intro
• 01.05 Parallels between "platonic" friendship and romance
• 03.05 Building a new relationship while maintaining a long term one. Compersion, transparency.
• 04.30 Hinge issues - time management, pitting partners against each other, comparisons, over-sharing.
• 07.40 Break ups while partnered
• 08.50 Reimagining how we celebrate relationships

Captions auto generated by Patreon; Transcript at the bottom of this post via Otter AI

Warmly,
Morgan