Relationship Agreement: Expectations, Boundaries, and Shared Commitments
A relationship agreement is a shared understanding about expectations, boundaries, responsibilities, privacy, sexuality, and acceptable behavior within a relationship.
New Relationship Energy: Early Romance, Attraction, and Emotional Intensity
New relationship energy is the intense excitement, attraction, optimism, and emotional focus that may occur during the early stage of a romantic or sexual relationship.
Compersion: Joy in a Partner’s Other Romantic or Sexual Connection
Compersion is a positive feeling about a partner’s happiness, affection, love, or sexual pleasure with another person, especially in polyamorous relationships.
Metamour: Your Partner’s Other Partner in Polyamory
A metamour is the romantic or sexual partner of one’s own partner but not necessarily one’s direct partner within a consensually non-monogamous relationship.
Polyfidelity: Closed Polyamory, Group Exclusivity, and Commitment
Polyfidelity is a form of consensual non-monogamy in which a defined group maintains romantic or sexual exclusivity within the group.
Non-Hierarchical Polyamory: Relationships Without Fixed Partner Ranking
Non-hierarchical polyamory involves multiple consensual relationships without formally ranking partners as primary, secondary, or less important.
Hierarchical Polyamory: Primary Partners, Priority, and Relationship Structure
Hierarchical polyamory organizes multiple consensual relationships into different levels of priority, responsibility, commitment, or decision-making power.
Solo Polyamory: Independent Relationships Without a Primary Partner
Solo polyamory is a relationship style involving multiple consensual relationships while maintaining personal independence and avoiding automatic primary-partner hierarchy.
Relationship Anarchy: Autonomy, Commitment, and Nonhierarchical Bonds
Relationship anarchy is a philosophy that allows each intimate, romantic, sexual, or platonic relationship to develop through voluntary agreements rather than fixed hierarchy.
Coercive Pressure: Sexual Manipulation, Threats, and Invalid Consent
Coercive pressure uses manipulation, threats, repeated demands, or unequal power to make someone agree when they do not freely want to.