Episode 73: Summing It Up: The Monogamy Continuum
As our special series on Open Monogamy comes to a close, Dr. Tammy looks back on the relationships, sex lives and experiences of our brave guests, summarizing where they land on the Monogamy Continuum. Take the Quiz and find out where are you fall!
Episode 72: Three’s Company: Life as a Throuple
Dr. Tammy talks with Rachael, Kasey and Aaron about their life together in a monogamous triad. Hear why they chose this path, and how they keep their relationship peaceful, balanced and thriving.
Episode 71: The Poly Anarchist
Dr. Tammy talks with Sergio about practicing polyamory with an anarchist structure. Find out how he balances his eight different partners and his very busy calendar!
Episode 70: The Committed Swingers
Dr. Tammy interviews self-identifying swingers and dedicated polyamorists, CJ and Linwood. Find out how they made the ultimate long distance relationship work, and how they now balance family, entertaining sexy friends and their commitment to each other.
Episode 69: This Works for Me
As a young girl in Catholic school, Maria thought she'd become a nun. Instead she married young, started a family and a successful career. After the trauma of 911 and her husband falling ill, they both agreed Maria needed extracurricular relationships. Now in her 60's, Maria has a lover twenty years her junior, plus a married boyfriend she’s been seeing for over two decades. Hear her story of open monogamy, her views on sex, love and dating - and how confidence is the best aphrodisiac.
Episode 68: My Husband Picks My Lovers
Synthea and Randy tried swinging but decided that Synthea wanted a more unconventional form of open relationship. She enjoys sleeping with younger men, and Randy helps her find her lovers. Hear how it all works for them, why they do it, and the advice they have for couples looking to open their relationship.
Episode 67: Being the Other Man
Meet Chris, a regular guy living in small town USA, as he shares with Dr. Tammy his experience going from a traditional monogamous marriage, through divorce, to an open relationship with an older, married woman he met on Ashley Madison. Hear what he has learned on his journey, and why giving 100%, 40% of the time is an offer he stands by.
Episode 66: Finding MORE
Dr. Tammy kicks off the Open Monogamy series talking with Molly Roden Winter, New York Times best-selling author of MORE: A Memoir of Open Marriage. The two dive into Molly's empowering journey from a traditionally monogamous marriage to opening her monogamy to explore sex, relationships - and herself- outside her marriage.
Episode 65: Introduction to the Open Monogamy Series
WELCOME TO OUR 9-PART SERIES ON OPEN MONOGAMY!
In this episode, Dr. Tammy introduces this special series on Open Monogamy, inviting listeners to explore, along with her, the growing trend of people choosing to live and love untraditionally.
Every other week - through October 3rd, 2024 - Dr. Tammy will talk openly and honestly with individuals, couples, and a throuple, as they share their relationship stories, where they fall on the Monogamy Continuum, and how they define commitment. Listen first hand, as average folks open up about their marriages, multiple partners, the difference between cheating and ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, happiness, and designing the sex and love lives that work for them.
Episode 64: To Be Loved
Dr. Tammy sits down with world renowned psychiatrist, therapist and trauma specialist, Dr. Frank Anderson to discuss his new and deeply personal memoir To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma and Transformation. For anyone working on healing from their own trauma, this episode is as informative as it is inspiring - peppered with some laughs and beauty secrets along they way..
Episode 63: Gender Magic
Dr. Tammy sits down with therapist, author and gender specialist Rae McDaniel to talk about the pleasure of self discovery, language and labels around gender, and their book Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self.
Episode 62: What is Your Blueprint for Pleasure?
Dr. Tammy talks with Jaiya, the award-winning somatic sexologist and author of Your Blueprint for Pleasure, about how discovering what turns you on can help you take control of your pleasure, have amazing sex, rekindle the spark in the bedroom, heal past trauma, and empower your relationship and your spirit.
Episode 61: Dating a Chatbot
Dr. Tammy and Dr. Amy Marsh explore the thrilling positives, as well as the potential emotional pitfalls of AI erotic role play, dating a chatbot and the future of sex.
Episode 60: Working Through Conflicts in Your Relationships
Dr. Tammy sit downs with one of the world's foremost relationship experts and best-selling author, Dr. Stan Tatkin, to talk about the biology of relationships, the most common conflicts couples face, and how to overcome them in his new book In Each Other's Care.
Episode 59: Better Man
This episode is not about the Pearl Jam song - well not exactly... Dr. Tammy talks with therapist and author Eric FitzMedrud about consent, modern masculinities, sex, and how to be a 'Better Man' to build more fulfilling relationships.
Episode 58: Swinging & Other Alternative Relationships
Dr. Tammy talks with podcaster, writer and relationship coach Ginger Bentham about her Life on the Swingset, multi-partnering and how to ethically love outside the 'norm'.
Episode 57: Sex and a Modern Cave Woman
Dr. Tammy talks with author and journalist Stephanie Theobald about the importance of staying curious, eco sexuality, reclaiming the word lesbian, and what her sex life is like living in the middle of the desert.
Episode 56: Boy Slut
Dr. Tammy talks with bisexual writer Zachary Zane about the complexity of male sexuality, shame and his new book Boyslut: Memoir and Manifesto.
Episode 55: Making Great Relationships
Dr. Tammy sits down with psychologist and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Rick Hanson to talk about communication, appreciation, cultivating erotic interest, and Rick's latest book, Making Great Relationships.
Episode 54: Want Me
Dr. Tammy and journalist Tracy Clark-Flory explore the struggles modern women face with desire, fantasy and feminism as Tracy reveals her own sexual journey depicted in her memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire.
Episode 53: Your Brain & Sex
Did you know that your brain doesn't know the difference between lust and love? Join Dr. Tammy as she talks with neuroscientist, psychologist and researcher Dr. Nicole Prause, about what happens to the brain during orgasm, how sex is medicine, and how it could be used to help treat ailments like trauma and depression.
Episode 52: Using Your Intuition in Love & at Work
Want to develop your intuition as a tool to make better decisions and improve your relationships at home and at work? In this episode, Dr. Tammy talks with acclaimed psychic, intuitive counselor and author, Melanie Barnum (who is alsoTammy's sister!) about intuition, love and life.
Episode 51: Open Monogamy - Could It Work for You and Your Partner?
The idea of monogamy and marriage are no longer simple concepts. Can you have a loving, trusting relationship while exploring new direction as a couple? In this episode, Dr. Tammy introduces the concept of Open Monogamy by answering listener questions and talking with a couple first-hand about what open monogamy means to them and how they successfully began redefining their traditional relationship over ten years ago.