The Non-Monogamy Playbook: Exploring Polyamory and Open Relationships with Confidence

’Fantastic. Full to the brim with practical tips and well-researched guidance, this is a comprehensive handbook for the realities of managing multiple relationships.＂ --Paul Brunson, author and MAFS dating expert

＂Warm, relatable, and informed AF.＂ --Megan Jayne Crabbe, author and presenter

The Non-Monogamy Playbook is the handbook for anyone curious about consensual non-monogamy: polyamory and open relationships.

This is a practical, joyful guide to the rules of non-traditional relationships. It uncovers the long history of non-monogamy, and explores why society today still favors monogamous, heteronormative relationships as gold standard.

Ruby’s weaves in her own relationship learnings with humor and empathy, and offers empowering tools for dealing with the complexities - and joys - of polyamory. She provides expert but sisterly advice on setting boundaries and cultivating self-compassion, as well as ways to navigate the myriad practical considerations of sustaining multiple relationships.

The Non-Monogamy Playbook shows us that there’s joy in having multiple people in your life (platonic, sexy, romantic), but with each connection there is added vulnerability. This is the ultimate modern guide to non-monogamy, helping you create confident, healthy relationships.

Ruby Rare is a sex educator on a mission to get people talking more confidently and inclusively about sex. Her work is influenced by her experiences as a queer, non-monogamous, dual-heritage person. Ruby is a qualified relationship and sex educator. She is an ambassador for Brook, the UK’s leading sexual health charity for young people, where she worked for five years going into schools, teaching Relationship and Sex Education, and training other sex educators and teachers about pregnancy decision-making, porn and inclusive queerness.