Today’s episode explores the concept of polyamory, reframing it as a form of “Gestalt-Preserving Intimacy.” The author of the source article, Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, challenges the widely held belief that emotional care and attention are finite resources that diminish when distributed across multiple relationships. Instead, Dr. Hoerricks focuses on the lived experience where multiplicity does not lead to collapse or dilution, emphasising that more than one relationship can exist simultaneously without any thinning or weakening of the connections. She posits that the body recognises and maintains this continuity and steadiness, contradicting the cultural narrative that portrays offering care in multiple directions as a necessary loss or division.

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/beyond-the-couple-many-wholes-not

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