Podcast
This Is Actually Happening
The book was highlighted during a conversation with Jessica Fern, who explained that she and her husband wrote it to share their personal challenges and attachment experiences while transitioning to a polyamorous relationship. The discussion emphasized the book’s focus on navigating open relationships and the emotional hurdles involved, particularly the anxiety that can arise even for securely attached partners.
Episode: 325: The 82 Percent: Bonus Conversation with Jessi...
Jessica Fern co-authored this book with her husband, Dave, which delves deeper into navigating open relationships. It contains stories of their challenges and experiences of opening up their marriage to become polyamorous.
Dave and I talk about, we share a lot of stories in Polywise about our challenges that we went through and he's very explicit about some of his, but one of the first ones was him and I would have said we were securely attached and he especially had secure attachment. And when we opened up, he went, I mean, panic attack anxious.