Free Chapter: Metamours

Polyamory School
17 min readSep 4, 2017

The following is a chapter from my book Polyamory: It’s Not Complicated. I’m currently writing a sequel and am publishing a few chapters of the original for free. — https://www.amazon.com/Polyamory-Its-Complicated-DeWayne-Lehman-ebook/dp/B00Y7ITG3I

The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. — Dante

A metamour is someone who is your partner’s partner, but with whom you have no romantic relationship. This can be your partner’s other boyfriend or girlfriend or your partner’s spouse. Of course, this can also include those who have another relationship status with your sweetie, such as their Dominant, Submissive, Slave, Protector, Sugar Baby, or what have you from the thousands of types of relationship statuses. All of these, to you, make them your metamour.

It’s always seems to be a nervous time, when first meeting a new metamour, especially when they are the established, existing partner and you are the new partner. Meeting a metamour can be stressful.

You didn’t pick them, your partner picked them. Whether you like them, or not, your partner likes them enough to see them. You don’t get to pick…

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