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The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory
- Everything You Need to Know About Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love
- Narrated by: Stephanie Rose
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
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Publisher's Summary
No one likes a know-it-all, but everyone loves a girl with brains and heart. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, offering relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack.
This practical guidebook will help women break free of the mold of traditional monogamy, without the constraints of jealousy, possessiveness, insecurity, and competition. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory incorporates interviews and real-world advice from women of all ages in nontraditional relationships, as well as exercises for building self-awareness, confidence in communication, and strategies for managing and eliminating jealousy. If you're curious about exploring group sex, opening up your current monogamous relationship, or ready to "come out" as polyamorous, this book covers it all!
Whether you're a seasoned graduate, a timid freshman, or somewhere in between, you'll learn how to discover and craft unique relationships that are healthy, happy, sexy, and tailor-made for you. Because when it comes to your love life, being a know-it-all is actually a great thing to be.
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- Robyn Scott
- 2019-04-23
Unpleasant
I am excited about the content of this audiobook, but the voice is nearly unlistenable for me. Her voice sounds like text-to-speech software, uninflected and disjointed. I regret buying it.
5 people found this helpful
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- Prairie shein
- 2021-03-07
awesome book
Loved listening to this insight book. helped me understand myself and others in my life. a good read for anyone in a relationship.
Audio was poor.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-06-28
Insightful!
Good starting point for new polyam folxs, as well as encouraging reflection in some more experienced non-monogamists.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-04-05
Terrible Narrator, Too Much History
I cannot stand the delivery of this narrator! and too much historical commentary for me
11 people found this helpful
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- Jen Duncan
- 2019-11-01
The most robotic voice I have heard in an audiobook
It was so hard to pay attention because the voice was not human and near monotone.
9 people found this helpful
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- Colin Robertson
- 2018-10-25
Accessible!
Dedeker Winston is incredibly knowledgeable of non monogamy and healthily relationships; she has also clearly refined her book to a very high level of concision in the editing process. Of all of the books that I have read on polyamory, this one sticks out for having a perfect balance of technically knowledge and practical application. It does not feel like a textbook, however it is filled with information. I believe anyone could pick up this book and easily comprehend what she is talking about. it is clear in her writing that she is cognizant of the variety of people that would find value on her book and she writes as inclusively as possible. I feel that this is one of the best books to give to someone that does not yet understand polyamory or wants to improve their relationships. I have already given this book to three people and I am sure that I will gift it to more in the future.
6 people found this helpful
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- Jocelyn Harris
- 2018-11-14
A great guide for all
This book is a collection of advice you hear in the polyam community wrapped in a personal perspective. Several times I found myself having to skip back because something thought provoking would send my mind on a tangent. It may be my new go to recommendation for people asking where to start.
5 people found this helpful
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- MM
- 2019-03-08
very informative and complete
very thorough book, it answers more questions than an the other ones I read. thank you
3 people found this helpful
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- Christopher E. Light
- 2018-11-01
I'm male.This is a great resource on poly. Buy it.
Great book on polyamory.as a man i did not feel alienated or belittled. There was a bunch of good insight and plenty of sobering counterpoints.well written and thought provoking.
7 people found this helpful
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- The Fun Bunch
- 2018-10-17
Amazing, Motivational and Informative!
I am so excited to listen to Dedeker Winston's book! I have been wanting to read it for the last year and just haven't done so. I love all the history and information. The non-biased explanations and points of view. To me this is truly a book on Love and its endless potential of personal meanings. I enjoy the reader, Stephanie Rose, and how she adjusts her voice to fit the individual statements. Totally a book worth listening to more than once.
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- jesse wittwer
- 2019-03-08
life changing!
this book actually saved my relationship. it was intelligent, thoughtful, encouraging, and inspiring. thank you!
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- MooMaster
- 2019-03-06
useful
lots of stuff you can piece together from various sources, but insightful. I enjoyed the historical explorations of non-monogamy and hearing individual women's experiences.
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- D. Faulkner
- 2020-02-27
Educational for Beginners
This is by far the best book that I have read recently about ethical non-monogamy and polyamory that I would suggest anybody starting off. Dedeker really get into each different component of polyamory an open relationship or ethical non-monogamy and makes it easy to understand. Thank you so much for doing this Brooke I think it was very well written and you did an excellent job of explaining everything.
1 person found this helpful