How to Negotiate Covid Boundaries in a Polyamorous Relationship

What to do if you and your partner don’t agree on a shared level of COVID-19 risk

Kim Barrett
Polyamory Today
Published in
5 min readOct 1, 2021

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I’m very risk-averse, including when it comes to catching COVID-19. My nesting partner (NP) wants to stop socially distancing with his other partners. How did we manage to negotiate an agreement that both of us are happy…

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Kim Barrett
Polyamory Today

Freelance writer & software developer (they/them) 📍 Oxford, UK https://kbarrett.github.io/