How to Handle Breakups in Polyamory

Being polyamorous doesn’t mean breakups don’t hurt (or that polyamory doesn’t work)

Thomas H. Brand
Discovering Polyamory
7 min readFeb 5, 2024

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How do breakups work in polyamory?

If you’re dating multiple people, and one of those relationships ends, how are you supposed to handle it? Are you allowed to be sad? I mean, you’re still in at least one other relationship, right? It’s…

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