Skip to content
Artwork for The Secret Life of Swingers
The Secret Life of Swingers · Thursday · 11 min

Compersion

What if your partner's pleasure didn't threaten your happiness... but added to it? 💜 This week we're diving into one of the most misunderstood concepts in the lifestyle: compersion: the feeling of genuine happiness when someone you love experiences joy, pleasure, or connection with someone else. Is it real? Is it something you're born with? Can you learn it? And does feeling jealous mean you're doing non-monogamy "wrong"? We're breaking down what compersion actually looks like, sharing our own experiences, and talking about why it's not the absence of jealousy, it's something that can exist right alongside it. #polyamory #SwingingLifestyle #PRIDE #OpenRelationships #SexPositive

0:00-11:50

transcript

No transcript — this publisher did not publish one.

show notes

What if your partner's pleasure didn't threaten your happiness... but added to it? 💜

This week we're diving into one of the most misunderstood concepts in the lifestyle: compersion: the feeling of genuine happiness when someone you love experiences joy, pleasure, or connection with someone else.

Is it real? Is it something you're born with? Can you learn it? And does feeling jealous mean you're doing non-monogamy "wrong"?

We're breaking down what compersion actually looks like, sharing our own experiences, and talking about why it's not the absence of jealousy, it's something that can exist right alongside it.

#polyamory

#SwingingLifestyle

#PRIDE

#OpenRelationships

#SexPositive

more episodes

All episodes