Are We Built for Compersion? 🧐

Protocol Entry: Compersion

This week, we’re back in Protocol Entry mode with a worksheet, some scores, and a lot of feelings about what the data actually says.

After completing Marie Thouin’s Your Compersion Worksheet, we sit down to compare our results and talk through what surprised us, what didn’t, and what it reveals about where we are in this experiment. Before we get into the results, we catch up on family travel, reaching 400 downloads, joining the chat for our next lifestyle event, a very successful Erika Lust detour, and Max’s experience coming off an antidepressant.

What we found was pretty clear: our relationship foundation feels strong, but the individual work is still very real.

In This Episode:

• why we put intimacy, self-care, and connection nights on the calendar
• discovering new turn-ons through Erika Lust
• anxiety, medication changes, and receiving care from a partner
• Marie Thouin’s definition of compersion
• compersion outside the lifestyle
• metamours and what kind of “other relationship” would feel good or hard
• why the foundation feels strong, even when the individual work is still real

Resources:

• Marie Thouin, Your Compersion Worksheet:
  • https://mariethouin.com/store/p/your-compersion-worksheet

Next Episode:

We'll be doing our second Listener Lab Book Club with: The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen. Read along and send your thoughts—we’ll be breaking it down next episode.

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Disclaimer: These conversations reflect our personal experiences and are not professional advice.