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That is intentionally left open to be described by the individual participant. We are including anyone who would self-report that they are either married and/or in a committed relationship with at least one person. If they, from their own viewpoint, do not report being in a committed...

Exactly - that's what the screening questions are for. If you pass those, it's all good. If not, then this particular survey isn't it, this time. As I stated some pages back now, researchers are of course privy to all sorts of things behind the scenes, e.g. the analysis, methods, measures...

Well that's good to know. A lot of people in "minority" groups or non-normative groups do indeed feel threatened. Particularly people of color, as research has been used in the past in very harmful ways against their communities. Most of the participants in our study so far though have been...

Different types of research yield different results, and have different strengths and weaknesses. Integrating oneself in a community has both major pros and cons.

No problem, and I apologize for not explicitly stating that to begin with. I'm wondering if some feel threatened by research - given that as another said here, many researchers come and go in these forums, and people feel misunderstood and like the researchers aren't "getting" them or really...

Two different people, both on the research team. :)

Oh wow. Yes I can see how that would be VERY wearisome.

@Bluebird, haha love it. Thanks for that comment.

We do have assumptions of course like anyone. I disagree though that preference for caregiving for one person over another in a specific time means it's a zero sum game or taking love from the other. And the attachment behavioral system is a different thing from sex per se. Anyway, I'm totally...

What do you mean, I have not allowed you to express that? You mean on the survey? If so, right - we don't know enough yet (obviously) on non-hierarchical polyamory to include it yet, but we are learning and perhaps we will focus on that in a future study! Even in this study, non-hierarchical...

Zombies aside, the "distressing" situation of the house being on fire or whatever was meant to be metaphorical. :) We are attaching mammals. We have an attachment behavioral system that gets activated in moments of distress. That system will guide us rather effectively to reach out to the...

Zombies for sure. :D :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Amen to that. I agree.

Well, I disagree that it's "quite" an assumption, but I do agree that it is based on an assumption. :) I wouldn't claim that any of this is 100% fact, so yes, everything less than that would be in the realm of belief, supported by varying degrees with theory and evidence. Attachment theory...

Thank your for your input! Definitely limitations. Science involving human beliefs and behaviors is harder than the "hard sciences" in some ways. :)

Thanks!!

Amen! I mean, gee whiz, I work with people all the time that are different from me in terms of values, beliefs, ideologies, opinions, etc. If I turned away everyone I disagreed with I'd never do any therapy at all!

Re: therapist - that is awful, and unethical, I think. The therapist in the very least should have helped you find a therapist who could work with non-monogamous clients/patients. Re: caregiving/protecting - yeah, that makes sense - you'll want to protect all of them equally, I agree. The...

We're hoping it will add a tiny piece to the existing knowledge base on non-monogamy - in this case, specifically those who have dyads that come in to therapy, or legally married partners. 2/3 of us are therapists, and typically see 2 partners in therapy at at time, not usually more than that...

"What is the purpose of your study, then? You really need to be more clear that you're not really studying non-monogamy, but a tiny subset of non-monogamy. It's like studying family dynamics and using only-children in your control group." We tried to make that very clear in the informed...