How to Create the Best & Survive the Worst

How to Create the Best & Survive the Worst

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Polyamory: When Your Values Say Yes, But Your Body Says No

Polyamory: When Your Values Say Yes, But Your Body Says No

Reckoning with the dissonance of what I want and how I actually feel

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Jamila Reddy
Jul 21, 2025
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Last week, I announced that I had coming out of polyamory retirement.

I'm holding the truth that my values and my capacity to act on them don't always align. After weeks of processing and trying to sort out the dissonance between my theoretical desires and my neurological truth… I’m realizing that I have to try a different approach.

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