If you’ve been on Seattle dating apps, you may have come across the letters ENM. ENM stands for ethical non-monogamy, also known as polyamory, an increasingly common relationship type involving ...

According to KUOW, Olympia’s late February move to add protections for diverse family structures has given Seattle organizers fresh momentum. KUOW’s Soundside program interviewed the Seattle Coalition ...

It takes one cross-country plane, a train, a ferry, then another hour or so by car to reach the writer I had read plenty ...

From big cities like Seattle and Portland, Ore., to small ones like Astoria, Ore., proponents of “nontraditional” romantic relationships are making headway in getting legal recognition.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this cabin in the woods since I read her new memoir, Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane, which came out this week. It is the homestead for West’s polyamorous relationship ...

Olympia recently became the first city in Washington to pass explicit protections for polyamorous families. We sat down with someone who was involved in that effort.... and who hopes to bring a ...

One public commenter said he hopes Seattle will take similar steps to protect diverse family structures.

“I just feel so much more freedom for myself,” says Lindy West of her journey from then to now. "I have two people who love me instead of one" ...

Dear Readers: I’m off this week. To tide you over until I’m back, the tech-savvy, at-risk youth pulled some classic “PUD” questions from the archives. A PUD, of course, is someone who is “poly under ...

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 ...

The first time her husband went on a date with another woman, Kelly felt sick to her stomach. Consumed by jealousy, she threw up twice and cried for three hours straight until he came home. The second ...

Andrea, a 43-year-old software engineer, was once open about being polyamorous. She told family and friends that she maintained multiple romantic relationships simultaneously, with the full knowledge ...