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The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory

Everything You Need to Know About Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love
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The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory is an intelligent and comprehensive guide for women interested in exploring polyamory, open relationships, and alternative forms of love. It offers practical advice, incorporating interviews with women in nontraditional relationships, and includes exercises to build self-awareness, improve communication, and manage jealousy. Whether you are new to or experienced in polyamory, this book helps craft relationships that are healthy, happy, and personalised.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This book is ideal for women curious about or practising polyamory, open relationships, or alternative love styles. It suits anyone looking to move beyond traditional monogamy, whether beginners or experienced individuals seeking practical guidance and emotional tools to build fulfilling connections.

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No one likes a know-it-all, but everyone loves a girl with brains and heart. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, offering relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack.

This practical guidebook will help women break free of the mould of traditional monogamy, without the constraints of jealousy, possessiveness, insecurity, and competition. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory incorporates interviews and real-world advice from women of all ages in nontraditional relationships, as well as exercises for building self-awareness, confidence in communication, and strategies for managing and eliminating jealousy.

If you're curious about exploring group sex, opening up your current monogamous relationship, or ready to come out as polyamorous, this book covers it all!

Whether you're a seasoned graduate, a timid freshman, or somewhere in between, you'll learn how to discover and craft unique relationships that are healthy, happy, sexy, and tailor-made for you. Because when it comes to your love life, being a know-it-all is actually a great thing to be.

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Praised as a thoughtful, well-researched, and practical guide, Janet W. Hardy calls it a perfect resource for understanding the female perspective on polyamory. Elisabeth Sheff highlights the book's witty and substantial approach, describing it as an entertaining alternative education on love. The author is commended for explaining how to thoughtfully design intimate relationships that work ethically and honestly for all involved.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781510712089

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 February 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 324g

Pages: 280

About the Author

Dedeker Winston was raised to be a wholesome, born-again Christian Republican but later opted to be a sex-positive polyamory activist, relationship coach, reality-TV celebrity, and nude model. She currently provides one-on-one coaching services for people transitioning into non-monogamy. When she isn't coaching, writing, modeling, or spending time with her multiple partners, she enjoys backpacking around the globe, playing video games, and obsessively applying chapstick. She resides in Paradise, California.

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