- 05 February 2011
- Published in Lifestyle
Many of you in in a three way relationship may relate to this article - there are a lot of misconceptions out there as Polyamory Paradigm explains in his Blog
You and me and you, a threesome!
If you have ever had this conversation, raise your hand. . .
- 29 November 2010
- Published in Australian Poly News
Article originally published The Australian November 20, 2010
Three is the new two as couples explore the boundaries of non-monogamy
Polyamory is more widespread than you'd expect and often it has nothing to do with cults or religion
THE Hill-Thompsons* are like any other young family expecting their first baby.
They're buying maternity clobber on eBay, weeping during ultrasounds and giggling when the malapropistic midwife leading their prenatal classes advises them to gouge their birth companions carefully.
There is, however, one thing about the Hill-Thompsons that makes them a little unusual: there are three of them.
Mari (a 33-year-old student doing her second degree), Sara (a 32-year-old uni lecturer) and David (a 35-year-old IT geek) have been a sexually monogamous, three-way unit for six years.
They are not religious, they're not cult members and they're not even that into group sex.
They just happened to all fall in love with each other at roughly the same time.
For the most part, the Brisbane trio have kept the details of their polyamorous private life to themselves. But they are slowly coming out of the closet now Mari is eight months up the duff. Sara is also hoping to conceive in the not-too-distant future.
Telling people about their super-sized relationship is complicated by a lack of unloaded language options. Threesome sounds too sexy and there is no triplicate version of the word couple.
"Usually we just tell people there are three of us," Mari says. "But polyfidelitous might be the best technical term."
