monogamist

‘The Bolter’ In the novels of the British writer Nancy Mitford, it’s a nickname given to the narrator’s mother, a serial monogamist who cycles through relationships.

She was so terrified that she became a serial monogamist, seeking safety in partners she hoped would protect her.

Long story short, the polygamists became de facto monogamists and it turns out I have a lot of feelings about all of this.

A self-professed serial monogamist, he lives alone, but his girlfriend lives next door, and is fully on board with his cause.

It’s true, for instance, that many forms of monogamy have been exclusionary, were based on outdated gender conventions and could, as one of Vice’s radical monogamists put it, breed “boredom, disloyalty and stagnation.”