To complement an exploration of relationship elements, the following is a sample of other approaches to examining various relationship elements and related concepts. Far from exhaustive, this list is intended to illustrate that existing resources are also available in a range of different formats. Also see my various influences.
Love as a non-exclusive practice
- On the potential for the concept of multi-love to change the world, Playing Monogamy, by Simon(e) van Saarloos (a 2019 English translation of Het monogame drama (2015)).
- Relationship hierarchies: Defending queer friendships, community and being single, article by Iris Lee (Archer, 2018)
- All about Love - book, by bell hooks (2000)
- What Love Is And What It Could Be (2017) book, and Labels Of Love podcast, by Carrie Jenkins.
- Relationship Anarchy - Occupy Intimacy! - monograph, by Juan Carlos Pérez Cortés (2022), available in Spanish, Catalan, and English.
- Forget romantic love. Let’s celebrate (and practice) a different kind of love instead - article by OluTimehin Adegbeye (The Corrospondent, 2020)
"When we choose love, we choose to practice curiosity, care for ourselves and others, the responsible use of our power for collective benefit, and undiscriminating respect."
Navigating external constraints on relationship dynamics
Consent culture
Limits, boundaries, agreements, & rules
Compersion
- What is compersion? by Marie I. Thouin
- Multiamory podcast episode 285 (2020) with Marie Thouin interviewed about qualitative research on how this concept is being used in the context of intimate relationships (including a discussions of the state and trait based elements of compersion experiences, and of various contributing factors at the individual relational, and/or social scale, and of when it can be co-experienced with jealousy).
Support structures
Relationship transitions
Describing relationships
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