Welcome back, Rachel!

We’re excited to welcome back Rachel Krantz to the show! Rachel has been on Multiamory a few times, and today she’s here to discuss being monogamous after non-monogamy.

Rachel is a journalist and the author of OPEN: One Woman's Journey Through Love and Polyamory. She was the namer of Bustle, and one of its three founding editors. She’s the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Radio Award, the Peabody Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award. You can follow her on Instagram @rachelkrantz, and subscribe to her podcast, Help Existing, wherever you get your podcasts.

Some of the questions Rachel answers on this episode are:

1. How has your identity changed over the last decade?

2.  How has your relationship to non-monogamy changed and how are you feeling, now that you’re in a monogamous relationship?

3. How does this change in identity feel, especially since your book references a different identity so heavily?

4. What does it mean to be in a monogamous relationship without shedding relationship anarchy ideals/jumping on the escalator/disavowing non-monogamy entirely?

5. What has been the biggest challenge you’ve faced now that you’ve become monogamous again? 

6. What have you learned about the state of feminism and non-monogamy bias from your publishing experience?

7. Did you ever worry about what people would think of you now that you are no longer non-monogamous?

Visit Rachel’s website to learn more about her and her work!