S7E3: Welcome to Polyamory City

Love Letters

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In 2020, Somerville, Massachusetts became the first municipality in the country allowing polyamorous relationships to qualify for domestic partnership status. Meredith talks to one of the first people to register for the new designation. They discuss what it means – and what it doesn’t. Meredith also talks to a legal expert about the broader social and legal implications of the Somerville ordinance. Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Meredith.
0:01.8	Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously, which
0:06.0	is why I want to tell you about season three of the podcast Turning Points, Navigating
0:10.2	Mental Health.
0:11.8	Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of Navigating Mental Health and the Turning
0:16.2	Points that can spark lifelong changes.
0:19.3	Post Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, dualists, writers
0:24.5	and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.
0:29.6	Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media.
0:34.7	Find Turning Points wherever you get your podcasts.
0:42.9	Remember the summer of 2020?
0:45.4	It feels both forever and not that long ago.
0:48.8	It was a turbulent time.
0:51.0	There was a lot of breaking news, to say the least.
0:54.1	That July, Naomi, a 30-something living in the Boston area, see something on Facebook
0:59.3	that no one else is really talking about.
1:02.6	This news, reposted by a friend, applies to her in a very personal way.
1:08.3	The post says that Summerville, Massachusetts, a small city right outside of Boston, has
1:13.5	become the first municipality in the United States to pass an ordinance, recognizing polyamorous
1:20.3	domestic partnerships, polyamory, meaning having more than one romantic partner with the
1:26.0	consent of everyone involved.
1:28.5	Naomi is polyamorous, and in a serious long-term relationship with her two partners, the prospect
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