Polycule: The Network of Partners and Metamours in Polyamory
A polycule is a network of people connected through polyamorous relationships, including direct partners, metamours, and other indirectly connected partners.
Kitchen-Table Polyamory: Partners and Metamours Sharing Community
Kitchen-table polyamory is a relationship style in which partners and metamours are comfortable communicating, socializing, and sharing parts of community or family life.
Secondary Partner: Meaning, Priority, and Hierarchy in Polyamory
A secondary partner has less structural priority than a primary partner but may still share a loving, sexual, emotionally significant, and long-term 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.
Polyamorous: Meaning, Relationships, Consent, and Multiple Partners
Polyamorous describes a person or relationship open to multiple consensual romantic or emotionally intimate connections.
Polyamory: Meaning, Relationships, Consent, and Multiple Partners
Polyamory is consensual non-monogamy that allows more than one romantic or emotionally intimate relationship with everyone’s knowledge and agreement.