@lauraramadei: LESSONS IN NONMONOGAMY: Romantic and platonic relationships should look more like each other. It’s easy to fall into “either/or” thinking. It's romantic or it's not, they have "feelings" or they don't... But friendly and romantic connections aren't binary - they're on a spectrum. #universalenmlessons #relationshipadvice #intimacycounseling #relationshipcoach #relationshiptips
I'm sorry but I can't take the word nonmonogamy seriously. Every time I hear it I start singing “The Muppet Show” theme
2025-09-04 16:06:03
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S.O. Authentic :
I struggle to find friends who have the depth to match this but I absolutely love your thoughts on how it can be.
2025-09-04 19:53:12
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devonrexenthusiast :
I love to love friends intensely 💕
2025-09-10 22:47:27
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katieclay11 :
Love this!!! Yes please! 🔥🔥🔥
2025-09-11 01:21:20
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anchorite :
Genuine question here: is it possible to be monogamous with a spouse but also have friend romances along the lines of the examples you described? Dinners, trips, movies, etc.
2025-09-05 16:08:32
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Katie :
I struggle with this hard I’m autistic and non monogamous and the line of romantic and not it’s hard because I can love easy in both ways but I don’t quite understand how they can live in the same space at the same time
2025-09-05 13:01:40
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PoisonedHedge :
Very well said
2025-09-05 04:11:01
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Andrew M. :
Hard agree. This is how my spouse and I approach ENM/friendship the same way.
2025-09-04 16:30:08
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JF🌼 :
Beautiful perspective, I have always thought and felt the same thanks for verbalizing it
2025-09-06 17:07:38
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Risa :
just because my partner finds another woman beautiful doesn't take away from my beauty. just because he wants to spend time with her doesn't mean he doesn't want to spend time with me I have to learn these things all on my own without help it was a hard lesson if anyone is in that spot and they feel like they need that help by no means am I perfect but I'm here you're not alone
2025-09-09 14:01:06
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Costume cryptid :
We’re decolonizing the capitalist hyper independent training, 👏
2025-09-05 16:14:54
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AceReporter :
OK so I am aro/ace…I have two platonic best friends and for a while we were all a friend group. I looked at another friend’s polycule and started to notice similarities. There were the individual relationships and then there was the group dynamic. And now I balance my time between them and don’t expect either to meet 100% of my emotional needs.
2025-09-06 06:25:44
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DumpHim :
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 some will be prioritized- a rare statement from poly people which is one of many reasons I have difficulty identifying as poly. Yet the nm or enm etc center monogamy in it’s terminology which is annoying 😂
2025-09-05 17:01:24
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Hammiel :
Friendship and emotional intelligence are the basis for all of the healthy relationship standards people talk about, romance is an adjustment of certain boundaries where you accept influence in places where you would otherwise keep private or closed off to varying degrees. I like the concept here but the you are putting the cart before the horse with this line of logic. I do think it is a natural overcorrection against the heavily forced standards in religious based monogamy that proliferated through western society, however I do fear that people are leaning into this ideology a little too hastily and confirmation bias is running rampant. I offer no hate and intend no offense, feel free to disagree.
2025-09-06 16:57:02
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Nerdrockor :
Early in in my polyamorous journey I was questioning whether I was or not. My partner at the time pointed out that I loved different. She said the way I was affectionate with my friends impressed them and they wished they could be like that. They were really entrenched in monogamous thinking and patterns so this was quite earth shattering for them.
2025-09-10 02:19:46
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The Shop Pittsburgh :
This is an excellent way to frame ENM relationships! Thanks for sharing!
2025-09-06 16:15:08
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_DylanMarlowe :
So good 🙏
2025-09-05 11:14:04
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ally_alert :
Absolutely agree. I think I have such an easy time adapting to non-monogamy because in my last monogamous queer relationship I already broke with a lot of mono-normative approaches to relationships - now I just broadened the spectrum. It's helpful for anyone to have fulfilling relationships to question why you think you need one person for everything.
2025-09-06 08:31:34
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Aloe Artwork :
This is why I *love* the phrasing/ethos of relationship anarchy! As a deeply nonheirarchichal person their *is no* inherent difference between platonic and nonplatonic relationships in my life.
2025-09-06 13:14:29
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Chlo :
Can you speak on attraction/physical intimacy, specifically how you decide whether a connection is “platonic” or not?
2025-09-07 05:49:32
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Switchy :
Being in the skink community for 5 years I’ve learned so much about love. It’s funny but I use Dante’s 9 circles of hell as my reference to my relationships. The 9th circle is my found family and romantic partners long term, the 8th is close friends and newer romantic relationships . 7th is new friends and so forth. I love this spectrum so much! ❤️❤️❤️
2025-09-09 09:43:39
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Dpool92 🇨🇦 :
This is a good way of summing up what I've tried to explain to my one friend. How my relationships are never the same, and they shouldn't be.
2025-09-08 00:11:58
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Snarky. Kind NOT Nice. :
thank you I've only ever been in monogamous relationships but I feel love for people in a polyamorous way. I always have and it's led to a lot of problems in life when people don't realize that the people they are now dating are people that I have loved for 15 20 years. and I truly believe that people just realized that love can simply be loved it doesn't have to have any other nuance to it we might all be okay
2025-09-05 20:19:39
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ise.mike :
preach!
2025-09-07 23:56:52
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Nikki Jean :
oh my God I don't know if my phone has just been listening to me or what but I really am just new to this but I really don't think I am for monogamy anymore and I didn't realize that other people were really like that too
2025-09-06 21:55:00
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