Well Enough Alone - A Guide To Thriving Solo

Amy Gahran: Solo polyamory and getting off the ‘relationship escalator’


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If you’ve ever been with a partner and asked, “Is this relationship going anywhere?” or been swept up in a romance without stopping to question if it’s really what you want, then you may already be familiar with the “relationship escalator.”


It’s a phrase coined by journalist, Amy Gahran, to describe the default set of steps society expects all intimate relationships to follow. She challenged the cookie cutter approach to modern love with her groundbreaking book, Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator.


This week, she chats to Jill about unconventional intimate relationships including consensual nonmonogamy, polyamory and asexuality, as well as her own experiences of solo polyamory, and what she’s learned from being in relationships that don’t follow the standard social script.

 

Amy is based in Boulder, Colorado, and also writes under the pen name Aggie Sez on her blog, Solo Poly.


 To stay in touch with Well Enough Alone, you can follow us on Instagram @wellenoughalonepod or @jillstark__ or support the show and get subscriber-only, early and ad-free episodes on Patreon.

 

Well Enough Alone is a Spare Room production. Our producers are Kieran Simpson and Trent Bartlett.

 

Get early access to new episodes by subscribing on Patreon.

 

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