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Love Letters

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🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Last March, Somerville passed a first-of-its-kind ordinance protecting non-monogamous couples from discrimination. In a ‘Love Letters’ live podcast recording, host and columnist Meredith Goldstein interviews a few of the changemakers who made it happen about what this ordinance and other public policy changes might mean for the future of relationships in Massachusetts and beyond.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody it's Meredith. I come to you from my basement where I'm
0:18.6	recording season 10. It's on its way I swear. But in the meantime, I hosted a Boston Globe panel the other day called State of the Unions.
0:28.0	It was part of an event called Globe Summit.
0:30.0	My panel, specifically, was about open relationships, polyamery, the changing perception of
0:36.2	commitment and how we define family. And it was fascinating. One of the reasons I requested
0:42.1	to host this panel was because I do love letters only about 20 minutes from Somerville, Massachusetts,
0:48.0	which in 2020 became the first place in the country to create an ordinance that said you can have more than one domestic
0:54.4	partner. Meaning in Somerville you can be polyamorous on the record. We've talked
1:00.2	about Somerville and Polyamory here so I thought you might want to be in on this discussion.
1:05.2	The panel actually featured an expert on law and Polymery who appeared on a previous love
1:09.6	letters episode, the one about the Boston Area woman who has two domestic partners, one of the first people in the country to be on the record as being in a three-person poly unit.
1:20.0	The conversation with this group is about a lot of things, not just
1:23.8	polyamory. It's about how gay marriage influenced other unions. It's about chosen
1:28.9	family and how the person we live with isn't always a romantic partner. It's about health insurance
1:34.8	and whether that kind of practical need is why people do or do not get married.
1:39.6	You can listen to the discussion now and we'll be back soon, I swear, with a full season that will change you.
1:47.0	Hi there, I'm Meredith Goldstein with the Boston Globe.
1:53.8	Specifically, it's Love Letters,
1:55.4	advice column, and podcast.
1:57.2	And I'm so excited to bring you a panel today
2:00.1	talking about the state of the unions.
2:02.4	That's with an S, the future of relationships.
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