Hosted by Ned Stranger · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
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In 2024, my wife and I found out I’m not our daughter’s biological father. I document this journey, exploring specific topics around open marriage and polyamory. Join me on this journey to learn how to conquer jealousy and relationship-fear, through detailed real life examples! polyriskreward.substack.com
Ned Stranger hosts Poly Risk Reward, a society show with 16 episodes published.
In this conversation-based episode I invite another main character in the story… my wife. Or perhaps I’m “her husband”. Either way, Anya Vero is a super talented painter and anthropologist (www.anyavero.com), a great mot
In this episode I explore my fear of Anya falling in love with someone else and leaving. Is this a valid fear? Does an open relationship increase the risk of this happening? And what does it have to do with attachment th
In a sort of experimental fishing expedition, looking for questions for the podcast, I took to Reddit and the Ask Me Anything thread… some of the comments I got were very offensive, others very thoughtful. On this week’s
In this episode I begin to explore the nature and meaning of cheating within relationships, as well as the relevance of non-monogamy to the question of cheating. I draw from Esther Perel’s beautiful 2017 book The State O
In this episode, I sit down with actor and podcaster Franziska Singer, the host of Darf’s ein bisserl Mord sein and LiebesGeschichte, to share stories and debates about first dates. We talk about our first date, the impo
In this episode, I explore safe sex and condom use, the second of our only two marriage rules. This rule was hammered into me, long before I started polyamory, by an older colleague as I entered teenagehood. But how effe
My first ever date on a dating app led to a series of misunderstandings that sparked a big argument (a very one-sided argument) with my wife about boundaries and communication in our open marriage and dating lifestyle. T
Finally, I’ve found a use for my Cambridge law degrees!In this episode I work out what makes a good relationship rule, creating the “Ned test” (not an official name) of the 3 elements that every good rule needs, trying i
In this episode, I tell the story of how, after closing our relationship, we opened it up again, describing the “trial-and-error” approach with a couple of examples. In 2024, my wife and I found out I’m not our daughter’
In this episode, I describe the time we closed our relationship, after a difficult conversation on a beach in Latvia. I explore the tension between fear and desire, with what is basically a case study in me being a peopl
In this episode, I describe how I stopped feeling jealous about Anya and her lover, and how this turned into a general cure for jealousy! In 2024, my wife and I found out I’m not our daughter’s biological father. I tell
In 2024, my wife and I found out I’m not our daughter’s biological father. I tell the story of our open marriage, describing in forensic detail how we ended up in this unusual situation and pausing along the way to explo
In this episode, I describe how a video recommendation from Anya’s lover changed my life, and helped me identify the reasons why we wanted to date other people. I’ll explore Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication
In this episode, I describe how Anya’s desire to stay with her pre-existing lover forced me to choose: did I want a polyamorous relationship, or not?In 2024, my wife and I found out I’m not our daughter’s biological fath
In 2024, my wife and I found out I’m not our daughter’s biological father. I tell the story of our open marriage, describing in forensic detail how we ended up in this unusual situation and pausing along the way to explo
Poly Risk Reward is now a podcast! For those who prefer an auditory experience to the written word (or want both…), I tell the story of our open marriage from start to finish, pausing along the way to explore deeper topi
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