The "Western World" has trained most who live here to feel as if monogamy is natural and normal: that it's "just the way thigs are." But humans are not wired up to live in monogamous frameworks. Evolutionarily, we fit somewhere between monogamy and polyamory, and our history as a species makes it easy to recognize why.  This week's episode is all about polyamory (poly: many, amor: love).

My guest is Dr. Stephanie Webb, whose book, Use Your Words: Opening Language for Open Relationships, examines the link between cultural norms, language and polyamory. Like many things in US culture, love is policed in ways we seldom talk about and hardly notice. The feeling of, "that's just the way things are" is the result of being covertly taught what love can and cannot be. 

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