The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory

Everything You Need to Know About Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love

By: Dedeker Winston

Narrated by: Stephanie Rose

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.

©2017 Dedeker Winston (P)2018 Tantor

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.

can't wait to listen again

fantastically comprehensive deep dive into all things ENM. perfect blend of anecdotal and research based.

Well put together book

This is a great informational book and is a good way to examine Safely if polyamory is for you

thought provoking

I love how much this book made me think and the growth it gave me.

Great resource!

Dedeker is one of my favorite authors and speakers (her podcast is great too!) This book is an easy read but has wonder tools you can learn to help navigate poly (or mono) relationships. It’s a must have.

So informative!

Dedeker provides so much information about the benefits and struggles of poly along with different ways these can be handled. This book gave me a ton to think about and there were so many, "ah ha!" moments where things just made sense for my current situation. Definitely recommend!

Very educational

This was my first book on polyamory and I learned loads from it. Highly recommend as an introduction to the topic.

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.

very informative and complete

very thorough book, it answers more questions than an the other ones I read. thank you

Outstanding book

I found Dedeker’s book very helpful and hopeful in a world full of relational rigidity and of celebration of the petty and fearful side of human interactions. It was written from the heart with her own experiences in mind. It’s not preachy nor condemning of traditional norms but seeks to help those who do not buy into the concepts of “the one” or that love is somehow bad if it is multiplied. Helpful for monogamous and polyamorous people alike and despite the title, as useful to men as to women.