We’re back with another Q&A with questions from our Patreon subscribers! This episode is a discussion around the following questions:

• What are your tips for communicating to those you're in relationships with about having limited availability and managing expectations, whether those relationships are newly forming or established?

• What do you do if you have figured out you are poly-saturated, but are still lacking sexual connection you want and have never been good at friends with benefits before?

• Is it normal/healthy to feel homesick for an existing partner when out on dates with new people? How do you work on that? I'm worried I don't allow myself to feel open to other connections, maybe due to past relationships/abuse, maybe due to some unworked through compulsive monogamy. I've been in this world for about 7 years and still haven't had two concurrent fully fledged romantic relationships.

• When, if ever, do you break up on behalf of a miserable partner who has made it clear they do not like some aspect of your relationship that is not changing and they’ve agreed to that. Assuming you personally are otherwise content in the relationship, perhaps aside from the processing of their discontent?

• My partner recently began dating someone we have both been friends with for several months. I’ve really appreciated their friendship so far and would like to keep it going. However I’m not usually open to kitchen table style polyamory and prefer to not interact with my metamours very often. How do I tackle maintaining a meaningful established friendship while respecting my own boundaries?

• I feel compersion when my nesting partner tells me about her sexual experiences with others, past and present. In fact it is sexually stimulating for me. I do not however, feel compersion when it comes to her having emotional, meaningful connections with others. Why is it easy for me to "be ok" with her sexual escapades, but not her emotional connections with others?

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