Citations:polyam

English citations of polyam

Adjective: "(informal) polyamorous"

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• 2011, J. D. Kleinke, Catching Babies, page 116:

  “Whenever I see you two out in public, you're always hanging with everybody except each other, like you're polyam cruising or something.”

• 2018, Kate Macalister, You Auto-complete Me, unnumbered page:

  "Hubby?" I asked, confused by what she was doing out with Devon and the redhead if she had a husband.

  "We're polyam." She went back to snogging.

• 2018, "About Jess Mahler", in Jess Mahler, The Bargain, unnumbered page:

  In the middle of inventing parallel worlds and fantastical beasts, she lost her family again, joined a polyam quad, watched it disintegrate around her ears, […]

• 2019, Liz Borden, "Non/Monogamies in Canadian Children's Picture Books", in The Spaces and Places of Canadian Popular Culture (eds. Neil Shyminsky & Victoria Kannen), page 99:

  Some polyamorists (polyamorous people) consider “polyam” to be a relationship orientation.

• 2019, L. J. Hamlin, Love Has Wings, unnumbered page:

  She doesn't know what Sammy will think of that fact they're both bisexual and in an open polyam relationship, Rose having a lion shifter boyfriend who is a long-distance lorry driver.

• 2019, Becca Jameson, Sharing Charlotte, unnumbered page:

  He was still wrapping his head around entering a polyam relationship, but he was equally aware that his life had sucked since he last spoke to her.

• 2019, Cassandra Snow, Queering the Tarot, page 77:

  If someone discloses a polyam identity or relationship, the Three and Four are strong indicators that it's a good time to welcome in new partners or take the next steps forward.

• 2019, Elia Winters, Three for All, unnumbered page:

  “We've been having these polyam discussion groups for months now, and doesn't it pretty much always come down to 'you're grown adults, decide what you want and how to make it work'?”

• 2021, Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Friendships: Using Science to Make and Maintain the Most Important Relationships of Your Life, unnumbered page:

  But even with that being the case, I've never had a polyam bud presume a sexual interest on my part.

• 2021, Martha Kauppi, Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients), page 250:

  Many people have mixed feelings or reluctance about being in a polyam relationship, but if they were clear that they did not want to be in this relationship, they would have broken up rather than come to couples therapy.

• 2021, Sabrina Symington, Coming Out, Again: Transition Stories, unnumbered page:

  Do I talk about being Polyam too much?