Balancing lovers in social spaces is a real part of polyamory. From parties to kink events, being with multiple partners and metamours can bring both joy and challenge. This essay shares personal lessons on setting expectations, reducing surprises, showing respect, and practicing self-care. With preparation and intention, these nights can shift from overwhelming to affirming, creating space for growth, compersion, and deeper connection.

Polyamory and neurodivergence defy the empire’s demand for conformity. In Empire of Normality, Robert Chapman exposes how capitalism shaped our ideas of “normal” including how we love. This Axioms of Love series explores how polyamory resists scarcity, hierarchy, and control, offering a radical, relational rebellion to the machinery of normality.

Explore the complex reality of consent in polyamory, kink, and power-exchange relationships. This article examines grooming, gaslighting, and coercion, revealing how true consent must be informed, enthusiastic, and free. Real cases expose how power imbalances distort “yes,” and why consent culture must go deeper.