We’re told there’s one version of love — two people, forever, exclusive. But what if that’s not the whole story?

What if love could stretch? What if commitment didn’t mean containment? And what if jealousy wasn’t a failure, but a teacher?

Across the world, people are quietly — and not so quietly — reimagining what relationships can look like. Polyamory, open partnerships, relationship anarchy… words that used to sound radical are now part of a growing conversation about honesty, freedom, and the limits of traditional love.

But breaking the rules doesn’t mean it gets easier. It means you have to write your own — from communication, to boundaries, to what “faithfulness” even means when no one’s following the script.

This episode is about that rewrite — the courage to question what we were taught, and the vulnerability it takes to build something entirely new.

 

 

GUEST: YANA TALLON-HICKS

 

Yana Tallon-Hicks, LMFT, is a couples and relationships therapist and a consent, sex, and sexuality writer and educator living in Western Massachusetts. Her book Hot and Unbothered: How to think about, talk about, and have the sex you really want is available wherever you buy books and her next book Redefine the Relationship will be out next year. Find out more about Yana and her work on Instagram @the_vspot and at yanatallonhicks.com

 

 

Her book:

Hot and Unbothered: How to Think About, Talk About, and Have the Sex You Really Want

Her upcoming book: https://yanatallonhicks.com/preorder/

Therapy & Coaching: https://yanatallonhicks.com/therapy/

IG @the_vspot 

Website: yanatallonhicks.com

 

 

RESOURCES

 

BOOKS

Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Jacilda Jetha

Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

Opening Up by Tristan Taormino

Polysecure by Jessica Fern

Love’s Not Color Blind by Kevin A. Patterson

 

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