Polyamory and Open Relating: Are You Ready? with Kirti Srivastava

Is polyamory and open relating an excuse to avoid the pressures and doing the work on your dysfunctional patterns that comes with deep intimacy?

Or is it a way to add more love to your life and relationships?

What has your experience been?

As a licensed family therapist, I am aware that all human relationships operate in triangles… some are healthy, and some are unhealthy.

Unhealthy triangles create more anxiety in the system, and more health symptoms in the “symptom bearer” (the one who takes on the energy for the whole system).

From this way of looking at things, the relationship is the client, not the person. We work to create healthy relationships.

So theoretically, polyamory could be very very healthy relationship (with certain skills, agreements, and level of integrity and emotional intelligence)… and it also has the potential to be a hot mess without those ethics and relationship skills. Especially when dealing with sexuality, which is our most vulnerable area to wounding and trauma.

It takes the average human many decades to develop these relationship skills, and probably even more time in the age of video games, online corn (intentionality misspelled), pandemic lockdowns, and rising autism rates.

Are you ready for polyamory? Or are you just avoiding deep intimacy?

What are your experiences?