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A review by hale7
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
A really good intro to the concept of adult attachment and how to change them. Fern makes a good case for approaching nonmonogamy from an attachment framework, but she doesn’t do the work of explaining how attachment theory is currently only constructed for middle class white (and Global North) nuclear families. More nuance is needed to account for intersectionality
Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Colonisation