Hi. I'm Michael.
Here's a little bit about me:
- I have been polyamorous since 2019.
- I am the "hinge" in a V to two amazing partners.
- I am the father of an amazing 11-year-old boy.
- I am the moderator for the largest Facebook Group serving the polyamorous community in Indiana.
- (For more about me, read the FAQ)
As far back as I can remember, I've always been the person people came to for relationship advice.
When I began my polyamory journey, I began sharing advice, experiences, and learnings in multiple Facebook Groups. I inspired trust and soon enough, individuals began to approach me privately to ask for more in-depth advice. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and thus, the idea for The Poly Advisor was born.
With polyamory rapidly gaining mainstream attention and acceptance, I feel the time is right to begin working with individuals, couples, and polycules. I am not a licensed theraapist, nor am I a relationship coach. But as a polyamorous person, I have real-life, lived experience working through challenging situations and emotions as I've formed relationships with some amazing humans.
My deepest desire is to offer a friendly ear and help people learn how to create healthy and sustainable polyamorous relationships.
When I began my polyamory journey, I began sharing advice, experiences, and learnings in multiple Facebook Groups. I inspired trust and soon enough, individuals began to approach me privately to ask for more in-depth advice. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and thus, the idea for The Poly Advisor was born.
With polyamory rapidly gaining mainstream attention and acceptance, I feel the time is right to begin working with individuals, couples, and polycules. I am not a licensed theraapist, nor am I a relationship coach. But as a polyamorous person, I have real-life, lived experience working through challenging situations and emotions as I've formed relationships with some amazing humans.
My deepest desire is to offer a friendly ear and help people learn how to create healthy and sustainable polyamorous relationships.
New to Non-Monogamy?
Does this Sound Like You?
- All your life, you've been taught to believe that monogamy is the only true way to happiness.
- Your parents and/or your grandparents stayed married to each other their whole lives.
- Music and movies taught you from the time you were young that romance meant pledging eternal devotion to one person.
- You've had a "work wife" or a "work husband" and thought to yourself, "Why can't we be more than friends?"
- You grew up in a conservative environment where "good girls" and "good boys" marry young, have kids, and don't complain about being unhappy.
- In this post-MeToo era, you sense the hypocrisy of men being allowed to cheat because "boys will be boys."
- You hear talk about ideas like "polyamory" and "open marriage" and "ethical non-monogamy." You're curious. But you're not wired that way, or are you? You could never do that, could you? How do you even start or make sense of it all?
Already Non-Monogamous?
This Might Sound Like You, Too
- You wish you had someone to talk to that understands what it's like to juggle multiple partners, families, and obligations.
- Your family still does not acknowledge your partners and thinks you're "just going through a phase."
- You are in a polycule, but feel increasingly isolated.
- You're monogamous, and your spouse is non-monogamous. Both of you are struggling.
- You and your spouse have agreed to open your marriage. Now what?
- It feels like you've become everyone's teacher and educator on polyamory when you yourself need support.
- Your pastor, counselor, or trusted relative told you "polyamory is cheating" and that you need to go to church more.