Iri Yanamadala

A 2025 neuroscience review mapped the full chemical cascade of early romantic love — and the profile looks a lot less like an emotion and a lot more like a temporary disability.

A landmark meta-analysis confirms that consensual nonmonogamy produces relationships as satisfying as monogamy — but the science goes silent exactly where the actual damage gets done.

Studies on hierarchical polyamory keep finding the same thing: secondary partners report lower attachment security and lower satisfaction — and calling the arrangement ethical doesn't change the math.

A 60,000-post study mapped exactly how anger, disgust, and fear spread through online groups — and the sequence explains why some communities never fully recover.

Boundaries set from fear and boundaries set from values look identical in the moment — but they pull relationships in opposite directions.

A decade of motivated-reasoning research said facts backfire on committed partisans — then a Nature Communications experiment got a surprisingly different result.

A new study finds that what motivates sex — and whether it satisfies you — shifts depending on whether you have one committed partner or several.

A new study found that CNM people score lower on emotional jealousy and higher on cognitive jealousy — and that gap changes everything about what polyamory culture actually teaches you to manage.

Ensemble podcasts do something no other parasocial medium quite manages — they let you feel compersion for a relationship you're not in, and then they close the loop just enough to make it feel earned.

Polyamory culture treats compersion like proof of evolution — but real ethical nonmonogamy has room for grief, neutrality, and the slow, unglamorous work of just getting okay.

Wanting a shared partner isn't the ethical failure. Building a triad where one person's exit requires two people's permission is.

A new study found the strongest predictor of compersion isn't personal growth or mindfulness — it's how secure you feel with your partner, and that changes everything about how polyamorous people should be working on themselves.

A sweeping new international study built the first real scale of what keeps consensually nonmonogamous relationships together — and the habits that predict satisfaction aren't the ones the community talks about most.

Most couples negotiate their open relationship once, then renegotiate it through behavior — and the gap between those two versions is where real harm quietly accumulates.