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Love songs and Hollywood romances make it all sound so simple: You find your soul mate, move in together, get married, never stray from the path of monogamy, and live happily ever after. But real life tends to be more complicated. Many couples pursue alternative living arrangements, and some even pursue alternative loving arrangements.
The twenty-nine personal essays in this collection offer a variety of perspectives and experiences with nontraditional relationships and forms of cohabitation. The contributors include married couples who live in separate cities and single people who find companionship through communes and cohousing. These essays also present varied outlooks on the practice and ethics of having multiple partners, with some embracing large polycules while others opt for "monogamish" relationships. Everyone has a different story to tell, from close friends living together to form a chosen family to couples navigating the shifting boundaries of their relationship as one partner begins a gender transition. With contributors across generations and representing the full ethnic and cultural diversity of the United States, Loving Arrangements demonstrates the myriad ways that we live and love today.
Contents
Introduction 1
PART I
Questioning Love, Marriage, and the Couple
Name-Calling
Margaret D. Stetz
I Now Pronounce You . . . Whatever You Two Are 27
Susan Ostrov
Reality TV, Wedding Fantasies, and Actual Reality Collide
Sarah Tucker Jenkins
Not Drowning but Waving
Beverley Stevens
Marriage Might Be Work, but It's a Cushy Desk Job Compared to Being Single
Sara Eckel
Dancing in a Precarious World
Ana Tager
My Father's Alzheimer's Romance
Stephanie Golden
PART II
Alternative Living Arrangements
Spelling Bee Love
Mimi Schwartz
Happily Ever After . . .
Helle Trap Friis
I Want You Here Always. I Can't Live Without You. Now, Please Go Home.
Jaime Teich and Chris Nellen
Our Big, Strange Long-Distance Romance
Mindy Lewis
A Bicoastal Relationship
Jon Bagdon
Hundred-Mile Marriage
Penelope Scambly Schott
Margaret Mead and the In-Between
D. D. Wood
A Ten-Year Odyssey 119
Lisa Gioia-Acres
Our Pick-Me-Up-from-a-Colonoscopy List
Leah Sherman
The Evolving Landscape of Platonic Marriages
Pamela Pitman Brown
What We Gained and What We Lost: Politics, Partners, and Community
Vicki Breitbart
PART III
Alternative Loving Arrangements
The Golden Girls House: Building Our Own Queer Family
Renee RomanowskyLoving the Past, Loving the Present: Polyamory and the Space for Both
Kelli S. Dunham
This Is My Grandmother's Nonmonogamy
Crystal Byrd Farmer
No One Is Born Knowing: The Myth of Exclusivity
Mari Carmen Diaz Piñar, translated by E. Rafael Jacobs-Perez
The Bobby Pin
Alex Alberto
Relationship Anarchy
Tierney Senne
The Space Between Us Remains the Same (a Long-Lasting, Long-Distance Love Story Spanning Continents and Decades)
Max Sharam
Fifth Transition
Helen Boyd
Making Up the Rules as We Go
Ariela E. Rosa
Highly Sexed: Stages of (Non)Monogamy and (Non)Authentic Living
Paige Averett
Stunning
Ronald E. Hellman
Acknowledgments
Contributors
