Lindy West

My only currency in life was like, does Aham like me?

How does Aham feel?

What's Aham doing?

And if I didn't have that, I was like nothing.

Polyamory is like the perfect antidote

The book is not a polyamory guide.

First of all, most of the book is not even about polyamory.

so and by the way all the stuff in the book that's not about polyamory where i am going through these like hard-fought mental health battles aham is instrumental in supporting me and helping me through all of those i i don't know how to even quantify the ways that aham held me up for those years i it's for all for 15 years now you know and like

Show me any couple that doesn't have some problems.

I don't, it's like, and I just tried to write an honest book and it just so happens, and I say this in the book, that my,

experience is easier for the mainstream narrative to empathize with than a honk.