What if love could stretch?
What if commitment didn’t mean containment?
And what if jealousy wasn’t a failure, but a teacher?
Across the world, people are quietly — and not so quietly — reimagining what relationships can look like. Polyamory, open partnerships, relationship anarchy… words that used to sound radical are now part of a growing conversation about honesty, freedom, and the limits of traditional love.
But breaking the rules doesn’t mean it gets easier. It means you have to write your own — from communication, to boundaries, to what “faithfulness” even means when no one’s following the script.
This episode is about that rewrite — the courage to question what we were taught, and the vulnerability it takes to build something entirely new.
GUEST: YANA TALLON-HICKS
Yana Tallon-Hicks, LMFT, is a couples and relationships therapist and a consent, sex, and sexuality writer and educator living in Western Massachusetts. Her book Hot and Unbothered: How to think about, talk about, and have the sex you really want is available wherever you buy books and her next book Redefine the Relationship will be out next year. Find out more about Yana and her work on Instagram @the_vspot and at yanatallonhicks.com
Her book: https://bookshop.org/a/7172/9780063075511
Her upcoming book: https://yanatallonhicks.com/preorder/
Therapy & Coaching: https://yanatallonhicks.com/therapy/
IG @the_vspot
RESOURCES
BOOKS
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Jacilda Jetha
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
Opening Up by Tristan Taormino
Polysecure by Jessica Fern
Love’s Not Color Blind by Kevin A. Patterson
Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships by Kate Loree
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