565 Help! I'm polysaturated!

What do you do when your long-distance partners move into town, and you find yourself with too many partners and too little time?

0:00 Introduction and host chat

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1:15 Poly in the news

What is polyamory? This is what it's really like to have multiple partners. Heath Schechinger is one of the leaders of the new Consensual Non-Monogamy Task Force within the American Psychological Association. They're getting stuff done to advance professional understanding of us and our needs.

2:30 Topic: Help! I'm polysaturated!

Paul writes in as a relative poly newbie who finds himself with more local partners than he can manage. We advise that it's OK (and in fact, usually required!) to take time for yourself and love yourself first, figure out how you would ideally spend your time (putting your own needs first), and then share that information with your partners to see if that meets their needs and let them decide if they can live with that.

12:45 Happy poly moment

• Heath Schechinger writes in to share a happy poly moment about bringing up relationship orientation as part of the intake process at his clinic.
• Jim shares a fun story about his teenage son feeling comfortable enough to ask for personal lubricant—and to ask for his mom's boyfriend to come by (and no, those two things aren't related!)

16:30 Thank you!

Welcome Abraham, Jim, and Eric as our newest Poly Weekly Playmates!

16:45 How to make this podcast better

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