Key takeaways

• The Essentials series expands nonmonogamy beyond how-to advice into ethics, culture, and lived reality.
• Each volume tackles a specific pressure point where nonmonogamous people experience harm, stigma, or confusion.
• The series treats nonmonogamy as a practice, not a moral identity.
• Agency, consent, and accountability are the throughlines across all titles.

Nonmonogamy is not one thing. It is a set of practices shaped by culture, power, and choice.

The More Than Two Essentials series is a curated collection of short, focused books that explore the realities of consensual nonmonogamy beyond theory and idealism. Edited and shaped by Eve Rickert, with contributions from a range of authors, the series responds directly to the gaps left by earlier relationship guides.

Why this series exists

Early nonmonogamy literature often focused on personal autonomy, communication skills, and managing jealousy. While valuable, those approaches frequently ignored structural forces such as mononormativity, stigma, professional risk, neurodiversity, and legal erasure.

The Essentials series exists to name those forces explicitly and to provide language for navigating them without shame or denial.

What makes the Essentials different

• Context-aware. These books situate relationships within social, cultural, and institutional systems.
• Ethics-forward. Consent, agency, and accountability are treated as minimum standards, not aspirational ideals.
• Practice-based. Nonmonogamy is framed as something people do, leave, return to, or reshape over time.
• Specificity. Each volume addresses a distinct aspect of nonmonogamous life rather than offering generalized advice.

Books in the More Than Two Essentials series

• The Relationship Bill of Rights – Eve Rickert
• Nonmonogamy and Jealousy – Eve Rickert
• Nonmonogamy and Neurodiversity – Alyssa Gonzalez PhD
• Nonmonogamy and Teaching – Ashley Speed
• Nonmonogamy and Happiness – Carrie Jenkins
• Nonmonogamy and Death – Kayden Abley
• Post-Nonmonogamy and Beyond – Andrea Zanin
• Nonmonogamy and Sex Work – Zara Shah
• Nonmonogamy and Defying a Paradigm – Marla Schreiber
• Nonmonogamy and Betrayal – Eve Rickert

How to use this series

These books are not meant to be read as dogma or in a single order. They are reference points you can return to as different questions arise: when jealousy flares, when disclosure feels risky, when life circumstances change, or when harm needs to be named.

Together, they form a map of nonmonogamy as it is actually lived, not just imagined.

Related reading

• More Than Two, Second Edition – Eve Rickert & Andrea Zanin