"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Nearly a decade ago when I started practicing polyamory, I remember feeling like a castaway at ...

Relationships and intimacy play a significant role in shaping our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. While having multiple partners is a personal choice, it comes with both positive and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research published in The Journal of Sex Research has challenged the “monogamy-superiority myth” (Getty Images/iStockphoto) People ...

When people discover that people like Naomi Allsworth have multiple partners, she says their minds invariably turn to sex. But polyamory, to give it its proper name, is more about loving several ...

After a brief "postus interruptus" for readers to consider the connections between pride, rights, and backlash, this is the final post in a series that untangles types of consensual non-monogamy (CNM) ...

Almost every time I speak to a general-public audience about my research on polyamory, someone eventually asks if poly people’s desire for multiple partners means that they don’t really love each ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. For many of us, our mental picture of romantic love is a couple. After all, a firmly ...

New research reveals that surprisingly few people consider their partners as friends. Those who do, however, have much more satisfying relationships. Here’s why. In total, just 36% chose to include ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Disconnection signals that the relationship’s emotional ...