Real Talk Reconnected
📚Boundaries, Rules & Agreements: What's Yours, What's Mine, What's Ours 📚
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KNetic Calgary South
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Neal KNetic Owner
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REAL TALK
What is Real Talk: Reconnected?
Over the years, those conversations grew into something more. What began as casual chats and one-off discussion nights became a space where members could share experiences, ask questions, challenge assumptions, and learn from one another.
Now we're ready to reconnect again!
Real Talk: Reconnected brings our monthly conversation series back to KNetic Calgary South with a fresh season of open, thoughtful discussions about the real work behind open relationships.
We'll explore communication, trust, boundaries, agreements, jealousy, insecurity, emotional safety, relationship expectations, and the many ways we create healthy connections outside of traditional relationship scripts.
Each session has its own topic and guided conversation, giving us room to hear different perspectives and learn from the experiences around us. You don't need to be an expert, and you never have to share more than you're comfortable sharing. Listening is participating too.
Come to one session or join us throughout the season. Each conversation stands on its own, but together they create an opportunity to learn, reflect, grow, and reconnect with our community.
Whether you're part of the lifestyle community, a swinger, polyamorous, practicing another form of ethical non-monogamy, opening a relationship, or simply ENM-curious, there is a place for you in the conversation.
The KNetic Bar will be open. No outside food or beverages allowed.
Neal & Roo
Joining Neal this season is Roo, one of our KNetic Hosts, bringing back his voice, perspective, and lived experience to the circle.
Together, Neal and Roo will guide each month's conversation while leaving plenty of room for the most important voices in Real Talk: yours.
Tuesday December 8
Boundaries, Rules & Agreements:
What's Yours, What's Mine, What's Ours
Boundary. Rule. Agreement. We use these words all the time in relationships, but are we always talking about the same thing?
This month, Real Talk is getting into one of the most important and sometimes misunderstood parts of ethical non-monogamy: how we navigate our individual autonomy while also caring for the relationships we've chosen to build together.
We'll explore the differences between boundaries, rules, and agreements, why those differences matter, and how each can affect trust, communication, security, and connection.
A boundary can describe what I need or what I will do to care for myself. A rule can attempt to define what another person may or may not do. An agreement is something people intentionally create together.
But real relationships aren't always as tidy as those definitions.
What happens when a boundary affects someone else? When does an agreement start feeling like a rule? Can something be genuinely mutual if one person doesn't feel free to say no? What happens when circumstances change and an agreement that once worked no longer fits?
We'll talk about how expectations are communicated, how agreements are negotiated, and how couples and partners can make room for both individual autonomy and shared responsibility.
We'll also explore what happens when boundaries are crossed, rules are broken, or agreements aren't honoured. How do accountability, repair, renegotiation, and trust fit into the conversation?
This isn't about creating the perfect list of relationship rules.
It's about understanding what's yours, what's mine, and what we consciously choose to make ours.
Upcoming Conversations
Talk openly about jealousy and insecurity, where those feelings can come from, and how we can meet them with curiosity instead of control.
Let's get Reconnected.