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After Family Estrangement, There's Still a Lot of Work to Do
Three common forms of emotional labor that keeps a person in a relationship with the family member they're estranged from.
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
Why "Just Set Those Boundaries" is Often Unhelpful Feedback
An introduction to grudging acts, the reality that we all perform grudging acts, and why family estrangement is so damn complicated.
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
Family Estrangement: Waiting for the Estrangement to Come
For many folks, family estrangement happens because a family member has drawn a line in the sand that places their religious values over a relationship…
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
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How Transitions Impact Our Mental Health
Reflections on hypomania, self-care, and the limitations of the diagnostic process.
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
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What is Compersion?
And why focusing on compersion, the absence of jealousy, misses a much more important part of mental health: How we effectively communicate the emotions…
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
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What is Relationship Anarchy?
And how relationship anarchy can help you foster a thriving, supportive family system, independent of your values about sexuality and monogamy.
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals

May 2025

15 Reasons People are Drawn to Consensual Non-Monogamy
Understanding why ethical non-monogamy might be important to us is an essential part of the creation and structuring of the possible relationship…
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
How to Have a Conversation About Ethical Non-Monogamy
Seven considerations to make sure that your first or initial conversations are compassionate, slow, and intentional.
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
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What Church Camp Taught Me About Relationships and Sexuality
And a review of Cara Meredith's new book Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation.
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
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Three Podcast Episodes for a Memorial Day Weekend
Check out friends at and our interviews with the A Little Bit Culty, Better Sex, and Deconstructing Mamas Podcasts.
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
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What is Abrosexuality? An Intro to Sexual Fluidity
Sexual and gender orientation are not necessarily static or fixed. Here are four common ways that orientation and attraction may shift and evolve…
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
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The Trouble with Traditional Markers of Sexual Readiness—and What to Use Instead
The three metrics we commonly use to assess for sexual readiness. And seven metrics that are much more effective in ensuring that you or your teenager…
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Jeremiah | Sexvangelicals
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