Polyamory Maine
Glossary
- Abundent Love: The belief or philosophy that it is possible to love more than one person at the same time.
- Compersion: The antidote to jealousy: taking joy in the knowledge that a partner is having sexual relations with someone else. See Frubble
- Co-primary: A person who is one of two or more primary partners in a polyamorous relationship
- Friend-with-benefits (FWB): A relationship where friendship comes first, with occasional sexual contact and no partner-level commitment.
- Frubble: A pleasant emotion of happiness arising from seeing one's partner with another partner.
- F..k-buddy: A relationship focused primarily on the sex.
- Lover-in-law: 1. A partner of one's partner; See Metamour. 2. The biological family of one's partner.
- Metamour:The partner of one's partner, with whom one does not share a direct sexual or loving relationship.
- New Relationship Energy (NRE): The excitement and energy-boost experienced in the first glow of a new relationship.
- Old Relationship Energy (ORE): The feeling of comfort, security, and stability often associated with a long-standing romantic relationship.
- Open relationship: A general term meaning consensual non-monogamy.
- Polyandry: A woman having more than one husband.
- Polyfidelity: A polyamorous relationship of committed and long standing where members agree to be sexually exclusive to one another.
- Polygamy: One partner of one sex having more than one spouse of the opposite sex.
- Polygyny: A man having more than one wife.
- Primary: The commitment relationship which may involve living together, marriage, mutual finances, and co-parenting.
- Quad: A relationship between four people, each of whom is intimately connected to all the others.
- Secondary: A relationship which may involve sporadic sex, but of a lower order in terms of priority, time and commitment.
- Spice: The plural of spouse.
- Triad: A sexual equilateral triangle in which each member is romantically connected to the others.
- Unicorn: A hypothetical woman who is willing to date both members of an existing couple, agree not to have any relationships outside of the couple, and/or agree to move in with the couple. So named because people willing to agree to such arrangements are nearly non-existant, whereas couples looking for a woman who will agree to these terms are extremely common.
- Vee: Where one person in a threesome, known as the "hinge", is sexually involved with two others, but those two are not sexually engaged with each other.
- Wibble: A feeling of insecurity, typically temporary or fleeting, when seeing a partner being affectionate with someone else.