#8 – Cheating and Boundaries & Being a Polyamorous Parent

In today’s podcast: Boundaries and Cheating; Parenting While Polyamorous

Boundaries and Cheating

• Rules vs boundaries
• When do you see more or less rules?
• Examples of rules
• Why do we make rules?
• People change
• Check ins are important
• Personal experiences with cheating
• Comments on cheating, divorce, and ending relationship
• A season, a reason, or a lifetime
• Emotional cheating
• Is the concept of emotional cheating similar to thought policing?
• Lying, emotional abuse, and needs for maintenance.
• Nothing wrong with incompatibility.

Parenting While Polyamorous

• Benefits of parenting in a multi-adult household
• Everyone gets more siblings in this family
• Quality parent/child time
• Challenges of being a polyamorous parent
• Harder to find a babysitter due to size of their household
• Lots of the same challenges of other large families.
• Do your partners meet your kids?

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Credits

Co-hosts: Kevin Leahy and Elisabeth

Editing: Jordan Davis

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