Real Talk Reconnected
📚 Power & Fairness in ENM📚
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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 February 9
Power & Fairness in ENM
Every relationship has power dynamics.
Sometimes they're obvious. Sometimes they're subtle. And sometimes we don't notice them at all until someone's needs, choices, or voice begin to carry less weight than someone else's.
Ethical non-monogamy doesn't automatically remove those dynamics. In fact, opening our relationships can introduce entirely new questions about power, privilege, agency, access, and fairness.
This month, Real Talk is exploring how power can show up across different ENM structures and relationships.
Who gets to make decisions? Who gets consulted? Who has more freedom? Who is expected to adjust? Whose time gets prioritized? Whose feelings carry the most influence? And who may be affected by decisions they had little or no role in making?
We'll talk about how existing couples, newer partners, solo polyamorous people, metamours, people in hierarchical and non-hierarchical relationships, and people with different levels of financial, social, or emotional entanglement can experience power very differently.
We'll also ask an important question: does fair always mean equal?
Healthy relationships don't necessarily require everyone to receive the exact same thing. Different relationships can have different needs, commitments, histories, responsibilities, and levels of connection. Fairness can instead mean being honest about those differences and making sure the people involved have meaningful agency, voice, information, and choice.
We'll explore how privilege can affect our relationships, how to recognize imbalances before they become harmful, and how we can create structures where people feel considered rather than simply managed.
And we'll talk about accountability too. Because having more power in a relationship isn't automatically wrong, but recognizing that power can create a responsibility to use it with care.
Fairness doesn't happen just because we have good intentions. It's something we build into the way we relate to one another.
Upcoming Conversations
Dive into honest conversations around pleasure, libido, attraction, and evolving sexual needs in ENM.
Move beyond theory and into skill-building with practical tools for real-time connection and repair.
Celebrate the ways ENM thrives in supportive networks of friends, lovers, and chosen family.
Explore how to create security, consistency, and emotional safety in non-monogamous relationships.
Let's get Reconnected.