Polyamorous relationship between four people

[Jazzy]

From top left, clockwise: Sarah, Chris, Charlie and Tom

Imagine one house, with four people, but five couples. How does it work, asks Jo Fidgen.

Charlie is talking excitedly about a first date she went on the night before.

Next to her on the sofa is her husband of six years, Tom. And on the other side of him is Sarah, who's been in a relationship with Tom for the last five years. Sarah's fiance, Chris, is in the kitchen making a cup of tea.

The two women are also in a full-blown relationship, while the two men are just good friends. Together, they make a polygamous family and share a house in Sheffield.

"We're planning to grow old together," says Charlie.

Polyamory is the practice of having simultaneous intimate relationships with more than one person at a time, with the knowledge and consent of all partners. The term entered the Oxford English Dictionary only in 2006, and such relationships are rare enough that Tom finds himself having to account for his personal situation time and time again.

If any of the four want to get involved with someone else, they have to run it by the others - all of whom have a veto.

The rules and boundaries of their relationships are carefully negotiated.

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Would you want to be in a polyamorous relationship? Why / Why not?

 

[Bea Sunny (:]

It is so weird for me. I don't want to be in polyamorous relationship.

 

[Jazzy]

No way this would work for me. I failed sharing in kindergarten!

 

[Bea Sunny (:]

No way this would work for me. I failed sharing in kindergarten!

Haha when I was in kindergarten I had two lovers.

 

[DrLeftover]

August 22

The White House will hold a closed-door roundtable discussion on issues facing bisexuals Sept. 23, according to gay rights groups.

The event, described in an invitation by White House LGBT liaison Gautam Raghavan as a session focused on “issues of importance to the bisexual community,” was first reported Thursday by the Washington Blade.

“Participants and administration officials will discuss a range of topics including health, HIV/AIDS, domestic and intimate partner violence, mental health and bullying,” Raghavan wrote.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/22/white-house-to-hold-closed-door-session-on-bisexual-issues-next-month/

 

[DrLeftover]

And then from this fine gentleman:

August 22, 2013

Mugabe also attacked gays in his inauguration speech. "We hope you damn as much as we damn the doctrine that man can marry man and woman can marry a woman," he said. "Let's not go against nature."

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-zimbabwe-robert-mugabe-sworn-in-20130822,0,6323586.story