When it comes to talking about open relationships, polyamory, and consensual non-monogamy therapy, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in these couples therapy topics. In each relationship, romantic or platonic, you will experience a variety of intense emotions. When you are in an open relationship, you may have feelings for more than one person at a time. For instance, you may love two or more people at a given time. Open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling gives you a safe place to grow an authentic connection.
In a consensual non-monogamous relationship, polyamory is the ability to love more than one person. In an open marriage, spouses take parent in consensual non-monogamy. One or both spouses engages in romantic and often sexual relationships with other people.
However, being in an open marriage is often easier said than done. Therapy can help you process big feelings.
Jealousy, anger, loneliness, sadness, and anxiety may increase after a couple opens their marriage or relationship.
Each person feels these emotions differently. Talking about jealousy, loss, fears, and more can be a great part of marriage counseling in Orlando, Florida.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult for open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida at Wisdom Within.
In an open marriage or polyamorous relationship, talking about feelings is essential.
On a personal level, each relationship you have will bring out different parts of you. For instance, one relationship might cause you to to grow in your communication skills. Another romantic partner may challenge feelings of anxiety or jealousy. Therefore, it can be helpful to talk about these emotions in couples counseling at Wisdom Within. Each person you date will bring out different sides of you.
And, another relationship can make you feel a sense of self-respect like you never have before. The next relationship might push your buttons or bring out a more passionate sexual side. And, another romantic partner may trigger an angry side of you. Feeling mad isn’t always bad. Learning how to release and communicate hurt and anger are great benefits of couples therapy in Orlando, Florida. Talking about anger and triggers can be very healing.
Overall, being in a romantic relationships create challenges we don’t expect and therapy can help you cope effectively.
When you are poly, you have more people to care about and more emotions you are feeling. Some people find polyamorous relationships a lot fo pressure and overwhelming. It can feel like a lot of please all of your partners, and make everyone happy. Other people find being with multiple romantic partners positive and connecting. Having a place to let go and reflect, such as at Wisdom Within Counseling, can be a relief. And, in Orlando, Florida, polyamory friendly marriage counseling can help you gain clarity. The help of a couples therapist supports grows as individuals and a more whole couple.
In open relationship therapy, you can discuss elements of trust, honesty, respect, connection, authenticity, and communication.
In an open or polyamorous relationship, couples consensually practice non-monogamy.
New feelings can arise anytime you make a relationship change. You or your partner might be looking to open your relationship after a time of it being closed. Maybe, you always wanted to open your relationship, but never had the opportunity. Now, the talk of opening your relationship brings about anxiety and fears.
Dealing with anxiety in open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy
Anxiety the goes unattended can lead to trouble sleeping, insomnia, appetite changes, mood swings, and tension.
To note, anxiety may increase and spike as you go out on a date with a new person. Talking about your triggers for anxiety in counseling can help improve your romantic relationship. Anxiety triggers can be personal like a new diagnosis of cancer, diabetes, or a mental health diagnosis. Or, anxiety can come from life stressors like loss of a friend or loved one, grief, or being unhappy at your job. On top of personal stress, anxiety can come from romantic feelings too.
Open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida at Wisdom Within supports anxiety coping tools.
As well, your partner may have new worries and anxiety that get in the way. Your spouse may share their anxiety with you that causes you to have more anxiety. From your own new dates, to social anxiety, to empathizing with your partner’s anxiety, multiple romantic relationships can be overwhelming. Open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy can be a great place to talk about and release anxiety.
Learning to cope with anxiety and talk about outlets are parts of Orlando, Florida marriage counseling at Wisdom Within. To add, talking about anxiety in open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy improves trust, your bond, and closeness.
Why start in polyamory marriage counseling in Orlando, Florida?
You and your spouse might be looking to have an open marriage or practice some type of ethical non-monogamy. Starting an open relationship for the first time can create a mixture of emotions.
Perhaps, one or both of you are totally new to living a polyamorous lifestyle. Working with a couples therapist who specializes in polyamory and ethical non-monogamy can help you feel safe opening your relationship.
Marriage counseling in Orlando, Florida helps you build trust and healthy communication skills in order to create a polyamorous relationship that is healthy.
Let’s talk about jealousy.
When we look at different emotions in a polyamorous relationship, another big one is jealousy. It is normal to feel jealous if your partner is going out with someone else. Maybe, alongside jealousy, you are feeling lonely.
One way that couples therapy can help is by giving you a safe space to talk about jealousy.
Having jealous feelings are not bad feelings. However, if partners let these feelings out in angry, intense, or aggressive ways, that’s where things can get bad. Yelling, name calling, and criticism are negative communication skills that can be hurtful. Open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy can help you communicate your feelings in healthy, calm ways.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult for open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida at Wisdom Within.
Slamming doors or breaking things are unacceptable ways to behave. Though, we often see negative communication techniques in childhood. As well, these behaviors often communicate betrayal, hurt, or loss of some kind that needs addressing. Counseling can help couples in Orlando, Florida effectively communicate to have a better relationship.
Likewise, learning to communicate with your partner that you feel jealous or hurt is quite an artful skill.
Currently feeling jealous means that you are in touch with your emotions. Open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida at Wisdom Within gives you a safe place to process your fears and insecurities.
Working with a marriage therapist in Orlando, Florida who specializes in consensual non-monogamous relationships can help you find healthy ways to communicate your feelings.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in helping couples navigate a polyamorous lifestyle. Understanding where jealousy comes from in childhood and in past relationships can be helpful too.
Sharing your needs, your wants, and being honest about your feelings are important steps in a healthy polyamorous relationship.
Polyamorous couples counseling can help you talk about your feelings in a healthy way.
If you are new to non-monogamy or a polyamorous relationship, your therapist can help you understand what you are feeling and identify emotions.
Working through and coping with different feelings are important skills. Gaining positive coping skills such as through painting, journaling, yoga, or meditation can be very helpful. Counseling helps each person in a couple unit gain healthy outlets and ways to cope.
Part of holistic counseling for couples means learning positive coping tools. Next time you feel angry or upset, you can use one of your coping strategies to get through and overcome the feeling.
If you are entering into a consensual non-monogamous relationship or an ethical non-monogamous relationship, you don’t have to be afraid of judgment.
Why work with our team of specialists in polyamory and ethical non-monogamy? Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in consensual non-monogamy and ethical non-monogamy. Open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida at Wisdom Within supports honest communication and connection.
Many times, a traditional therapist may cause you to feel shame about wanting something other than a monogamous relationship.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, if you are looking for a polyamorous relationship, open relationship, or ethical non-monogamy of some kind, we support you.
The most important part in any relationship is consent. Making sure that all partners in a relationship consent to non-monogamy is key.
Otherwise, non-consensual non-monogamy is an affair and cheating. Wisdom Within Counseling in Orlando, Florida can also help you if you are having an affair or cheating, but for this article, we will talk more about non-monogamy.
Acceptance and confidence in ethical non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida
Society pressures people to take part in monogamous relationships. Instead, counseling can help you view your polyamorous relationship with confidence. It is very common for people to feel shame and guilt if they are in love with two people. As well, you may feel shame or guilt about other parts of your identity too. Perhaps, you are bisexual, pansexual, queer, bi-gender, gay, or transgender. Learning to accept and love yourself just as you are is a part of counseling. We are LGBTQIA+ affirming at Wisdom Within Counseling in Orlando, Florida.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, your therapist can help you gain clarity on your sexual orientation, gender identity, and be your authentic self.
Being in love with two people is not a bad thing. Learning how to communicate what you need and what you want in an ethically non-monogamous relationship is important. Working with a polyamorous couples therapist in Orlando, Florida can help you formulate what you want to say.
You can be honest and authentic as you take part in ethical non-monogamous relationships.
One way to open relationships, polyamory, and ethical non-monogamy therapy can help you is by setting boundaries.
Learning to set boundaries may be a skill that you did not learn in childhood. It might feel like sometimes you have no backbone or you let people walk all over you. Perhaps, you are a people pleaser and you want to gain more self-confidence.
Polyamory couples counseling in Orlando, Florida is a great way to set boundaries.
You might want to learn to say no. As well, in romantic relationships, you might want to have a set of boundaries. However, right now, you don’t know how to communicate them well. Learning to communicate your boundaries means sharing with a romantic partner that certain things are unacceptable behaviors.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult for open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida at Wisdom Within.
If you don don’t communicate your boundaries, people continue to walk all over you.
Learning to talk to people when they disregarded disrespect or boundary is also important. You can talk about which boundaries and be more flexible and which boundaries are firm in a line that should never be crossed. Open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida at Wisdom Within helps you define and uphold your boundaries.
Each person in a relationship can create different boundaries based on their needs and desires.
Let’s talk about time boundaries.
For instance, in an open relationship or polyamorous relationship, you might want to have a certain days of the week for your primary partner. Let’s say that Monday through Friday you want to be with your primary partner. However, on Saturday and Sunday, you both want time to have a casual fling, go out on dates, and see other people.
Talking about this boundary builds trust and emotional security.
Talking about this would be an example of setting a boundary. Boundaries can include time together, activities, conversations, emotions, and sex.
What is a sexual boundary?
Communicating what is and isn’t okay when alone with other partners is another boundary to discuss. Your partner might ask that you do not have sexual intercourse or sexual activities with other people when you are out with. This might be an example of a sexual boundary.
Studies show that only having platonic relationships usually does not work long term. Some partners find romantic and sexual chemistry develops quickly. So, constant communication is important when it comes to polyamory.
However, some couples take part in polyamory for more sexual pleasure, activity, and sexual satisfaction needs.
If you are looking for more sexual satisfaction from an open relationship, you may not have a boundary like this. Instead, your boundary may include verification of STI and STD testing before sexual activities. Getting tested for STI’s and STD’s monthly or before each new sexual partner may be part of your boundaries.
Open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling is a safe place to talk about your boundaries and needs
Talking about what lines you do not want crossed or important parts of having a healthy open relationship and ethically non-monogamous relationship.
In polyamory couples therapy and ethical non-monogamy therapy, you can learn about boundaries and open relationships.
For each person, they can get a safe space to talk about formulating and setting boundaries in counseling.
In couples therapy in Orlando, Florida, you and your partner can learn to have open hearted conversations that build a meaningful and honest relationship.
As well, you can talk about what polyamory and your open relationship looks like to you in couples therapy.
Depending on your sexual orientation, you might choose to practice polyamory with two or more people. For instance, a couple may want to have another person join them and make a throuple. To note, a throuple is a romantic relationship between three people.
Why do people choose a poly lifestyle?
Polyamorous people may choose to be together for companionship, quality time, or sexual pleasure. Each poly person may have different needs from their partners. As well, a couple may want to date another couple to make a poly quad. Or, a married couple may decide to open their relationship and both casually date other people.
The possibilities are endless but the most important thing is consent. Open relationships can be as involved or is casual as you and your partner would like.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult for open relationship, poly, and non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida at Wisdom Within.
Sharing your open relationship with friends and family
As well, you may or may not share that you are in an ethically non-monogamous relationship with extended family or close friends. Ethical non-monogamy is a totally valid form of having a relationship. Not everyone is accepting though. However, you may feel shamed from religious, conservative relatives or family members who may not understand your poly lifestyle.
Every person may perceive polyamory or non-monogamy differently. So, it can be helpful to talk about with your couples therapist. From counseling, you can both decide who you want to come out to as poly.
Working with a poly friendly and poly affirming couples therapist can help you understand your intimate, romantic, and polyamorous relationship to help it be the healthiest it can be.
Affection, communication, bonding, and sex are all important things to talk about in consensual non-monogamy therapy in Orlando, Florida.
Working with a counselor at Wisdom Within can help you let go of the strict standards of our monogamous society.
You can overcome any internal shame that you might be feeling about having a polyamorous lifestyle. You can talk about affection, connection, emotional bonding, and sex. All of these are important things to talk about in consensual non-monogamy therapy at Wisdom Within.
Working with an open relationship affirming counselor at Wisdom Within can help you let go of the strict standards of our monogamous society.
You can overcome any shame that you might be feeling about having a polyamorous lifestyle. As well, you can talk about sexual pleasure, orgasming, and your sex life in counseling.
Also, you can talk about what you need in terms of affection and authentic connections with others.
Polyamory couples therapy in Florida and Connecticut at Wisdom Within can be a safe place for you.
You get to talk about the different emotions that multiple romantic partners can invoke. Anger, silliness, excitement, sadness, frustration, jealousy, and even fears can all arise.
