A book?

So I was approached by my church's religious education director because she was wondering if there were any stories that featured poly families or poly situations. I've done some asking around and there's Six-Dinner Sid but not many else. There is apparently an adult education program available from the UUA that deals with Poly but really there seems to be little for kids. This Sunday my son's class read "And Tango Makes Three" and that gave me an idea, why don't I write a children's book? I got to thinking how could I write a book about polyamoury that would be child appropriate and I think that maybe having it be about baby animals like in "And Tango Makes Three" might be a good way to approach it. I even have the perfect animal! The Bonobo! Stay tuned for more details, I have alot of reading and researching to do first but then I'm thinking I might need to put this on kick starter!

Polyandry and Polyamory

So as a polyamorist I find it interesting to learn about other alternative relationship structures then the commonplace (in western culture) wife and husband. Take India and Nepal, in some villages polyandry is a common relationship type. When a man is ready to marry his parents choose a wife and his younger brothers can choose to ALSO marry the same women.



One women with a whole bunch of men. I see similarities between them and my own life with two men. Yes scheduling is an issue (and guilt mind you if I haven't been paying equal attention to each of them, but I deal with that with my kids too, right?) and the men in these relationships chip in around the house and with the kids just as mine do. So that would pretty much make me polyandrous, right?

Well not exactly. I happen to have two male partners but I CHOSE them and they chose me. There's no farm to protect of tradition to keep, we just love differently! Oh and the marriage is open to more partners where as I suspect if you're not a relative you're probably not getting in on the deal in Nepal, kwim? It's this element of choice and freedom that really sets polyamory apart from other group marriage arrangements.

I must say I'm a very lucky woman and I struck gold twice, my partners are great friends and I'm well cared for. I have four beautiful children and I have a great deal of family harmony. Sure it's not always perfect but what marriage is, right? We all have out ups and downs, but we work through things in a big way and things work out. I look forward to sharing the daily ups here and hopefully I'll amuse you :)