Playing With Fire 186 Polyamory in the Second Half of Adulthood with Kathy Labriola
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Jan 11, 2025 
Kathy Labriola, nurse counselor, hypnotherapist, and long-time polyamory educator and author, shares perspectives from five decades of non-monogamy. She explores how multiple partners can offer practical care, shifting sexual needs, and emotional support as people age. Kathy highlights diverse long-term relationship models, late-life discoveries of polyamory, caregiving dynamics, and the wisdom elders bring to reinventing relationships.
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Visibility Shapes Possibility
- Lack of visible elders made early polyamory seem impossible to imagine for newcomers.
- Kathy wrote Polyamorous Elders to show long-term models and expand younger people's imagination.
Polyamory As A Resilient Aging Model
- Polyamory can be a resilient model for aging by providing multiple sources of companionship and financial support.
- Having several partners increases options for caregiving and reduces lone widower loneliness.
Metamours As Shared Grief Support
- Metamours often become essential sources of comfort after a shared loss because they knew the deceased too.
- Poly people frequently have other active partners to lean on when one relationship ends.
