Why I’m Polyamorous

Learning to care for and support the people I love, not control them

Jeremy Adam Smith
The Bold Italic
Published in
8 min readFeb 13, 2020

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She’s beautiful.

Those were the first words that popped into my mind when I saw Angela* sitting on the barstool, on our first date at Cornerstone in Berkeley. She wasn’t wearing any makeup, and she didn’t color the middle-aged silver in her hair, which communicated a self-confidence I found…

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Editor of Greater Good Magazine,journalist covering education & science, author of The Daddy Shift, former Knight fellow. Contact: jeremysmith (at) berkeley.edu