Most people process their emotions with their partner.
It certainly felt normal and intuitive to me when I was in my first long-term poly partnership back in 2018.
But I learned the hard way over time that it was not helping our situation. It was actually hurting it.
I've found it much more effective to take a Polyamory Processing Break (a P.P. Break!) to analyze my feelings and needs and formulate boundaries and requests.
Inside How I "Right-Sized" My New Relationship, you'll read the actual letters I sent during the first 4 months of a new relationship as we navigated different expectations, different needs and desires, uncertainty, an STI disclosure, and my gradual realization that the relationship wasn't going to look the way I'd originally imagined.
Nothing has been rewritten.
These are the exact letters I sent, in the order I sent them, along with the context that led to each one and my reflections as I look back today.