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No please

- November 29, 2020November 29, 2020 - Jenny Wilson comment

Content Warning: mentions of abusive behaviour, trauma, consent transgressions and gaslighting No is sometimes a very difficult word to say. I believe that human beings are wired for connection, so rejecting someone’s wants or requests…

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Intimacy is a conversation

- September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 - Jenny Wilson comment

Guest blog: by Chris Makepeace As I am writing this, I am feeling a little lonely. Loneliness has been a familiar part of my life, as has been a feeling of connection to people. These…

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Intimacy in a pandemic

- June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 - Jenny Wilson comment

June 2020. It is now illegal under UK lockdown laws for couples living apart to have sex indoors - so English newspaper headlines this week have highlighted. It’s also illegal to have your Gran round…

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Unassuming

- April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 - Jenny Wilson comment

These writings have all started from the premise that the core escalator script about love is a social construct, and there are other ways to love. My own journey started with a rejection of that…

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Polyamory in a pandemic

- March 28, 2020March 30, 2020 - Jenny Wilson comment

March 2020 - I started writing this on 24th March, the day after the UK Government finally stepped up and put the country in a 3 week lock down. It's taken me a few days…

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Consent in a pandemic – 2

- March 20, 2020March 30, 2020 - Jenny Wilson comment

It's been a week since I first wrote on this and the world has been changing fast... UK supermarkets are now empty of pasta, bread, cereal, eggs, flour, potatoes, rice, loo roll, hand santizer and…

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Consent in a pandemic

- March 13, 2020March 30, 2020 - Jenny Wilson comment

Isolation is hard. Human beings are social animals - we need contact and connection for our physical and mental well-being... and loneliness is a killer, albeit less obvious than a virus. My good friend (let's…

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The Jealousy Lesson

- March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 - Jenny Wilson comment

There’s a popular myth that people in polyamorous relationships don’t get jealous. Or if they do, they’re ‘bad at poly’. I often hear people berate themselves (and occasionally others) for feelings of jealousy. It’s a…

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The One – a love letter

- January 15, 2020January 15, 2020 - Jenny Wilson comment

First published 31/12/19 on our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32747654 I feel that one of the most problematic and insidious parts of ‘the script’ about love and relationships is the false premise that somebody else can make…

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Acceptance

- September 20, 2019September 20, 2019 - Jenny Wilson comment

The first rule of polyamory is... THERE ARE NO RULES. A lot of people do their polyamory with rules, structures and hierarchies. If you're new to it, maybe opening up a monogamous relationship for the…