How and when did the term get coined?
Zhahai coined the term “New Relationship Energy” (or NRE) in the mid 1980’s in the course of learning to understand and communicate important dynamics within non-monogamous relationships, especially his own. It helped to have a shorthand and a constructive conceptual framing for what he and others were experiencing in their polyamorous lives (though this was before the term “polyamory” was coined so they didn’t call it that).
