Aging in Long-Term Polyamorous Relationships
Facilitated By: Elisabeth Sheff
Thu, Jun 9th at 8:30PM ET / 5:30PM PT
Here's what you can expect to learn in this virtual workshop:
- The ways in which polyamorous elders’ relationships with their children change as they
age. - How polyamorous elders’ interactions with their local and online communities shifts with
aging. - Some of the financial complications that can arise for polyamorous elders.
- How illness, disability, and death impact polyamorous elders.
- Why some people who have been polyamorous for decades stick with it into their elder years, and why some others intentionally or accidentally become monogamous.
Elisabeth "Eli" Sheff, PhD, CSE
Expert Educator& Relationship Coach
"We were in various forms of a polyamorous relationship for over a decade before we decided to formally divorce. “Divorce” felt like a misnomer for our intentions and experience, so we searched for different models and found Eli’s research. It helped us greatly to think through our experience!
We called her up for a consultation and had a great talk that has laid the groundwork for a productive process of dividing up our assets while still maintaining our sense of intimacy and closeness.
We highly recommend talking with her if you find yourself in a similar space!”
- P. & G.
Dr. Elisabeth Sheff is one of a handful of global academic experts on polyamory and the foremost academic expert on children in polyamorous families. Specializing in diversity and underserved populations, Sheff is an expert witness, relationship consultant, public speaker, and author.
Her first book, The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families (2014 hardback and ebook, 2015 paperback and audiobook), details Sheff’s findings from the first 15 years of the Polyamorous Families Study.
Stories from the Polycule: Real Life in Polyamorous Families (2015), Sheff’s second book, is an edited collection of stories from people in polyamorous families.
Sheff’s third book, When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous: Understanding Poly People and Relationships is a brief introduction to polyamory using empirical evidence to start a conversation.
With a Ph.D. in Sociology, Sheff is a pioneer of the academic study of polyamory. Sheff has also published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in academic journals and books. Dr. Sheff has taught at the University of Colorado, University of Montana, Georgia State University, Oglethorpe, and Emory University.
Dr. Sheff has given scores of radio, podcast, print, and television interviews with sources from The New York Times, ABC News, and CNN to The Atlantic, New York, and Shape magazines. She has appeared on National Geographic Television’s Taboo and Sunrise, a morning show in Australia. As a blogger for Psychology Today, Sheff makes academic research easily accessible to everyone.
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