The New More Than Two: More Than Two Essentials

A philosophical and practical guide to nonmonogamy and polyamory, exploring care, consent, accountability and power alongside tools for communication, boundaries and navigating jealousy.

Released a decade after the celebrated but controversial 2014 book, The New More Than Two is More Than Two for the post-#MeToo era. Entirely rewritten with a new coauthor, The New More Than Two represents a complete conceptual reorientation focused on care, mutual accountability and empathy. It rejects hyper-autonomy as a distortion of earlier polyamory discourse, introduces explicit material on abuse in a nonmonogamous context, and situates its ethical analysis within a context of systemic power structures such as gender, colonialism and race.

In this transformative collaboration, Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin bring together decades-deep lived experience, research on attachment and relationship diversity, and a justice-inflected approach to love, ethics and boundaries. You'll find practical tools for communicating when jealousy or fear shows up, frameworks for crafting agreements that evolve, and a relational lens on power, consent, autonomy and integrity. Whether you're solo, coupled, nested or embedded in an anarchic web of connections, this book meets you where you are. It's also thoroughly inclusive of queer, kinky, ace, trans and nonbinary readers, and it addresses aspects of nonmonogamy that stretch well beyond romantic or sexual relationships.

Drawing on the best of the original while reimagining it for a changed world, The New More Than Two is a guide for anyone seeking love that is both brave and kind.