What to know if you're exploring non-monogamy

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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When we think about romance, many of us have a specific script in mind. Two people date, fall in love and get married. But that traditional path doesn't work for everyone.

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0:00.0	You're listening to LifeKid from NPR.
0:05.6	Hey everybody, it's MaryL, and I have a love story for you.
0:13.0	When Elizabeth Clark met her partner, she says that was pretty much it for her.
0:17.4	I was falling in love with Corey in a way that I was like, this is my person.
0:22.0	Like this is the person that I'm supposed to like have my life with.
0:26.0	How I knew that, I couldn't tell you.
0:28.0	I just kind of did.
0:30.0	Liz is a clinical psychologist and the director of counseling at the new school.
0:35.0	She's talking about her partner, Corey.
0:37.0	They are committed to each other and they're non-monogamous.
0:41.0	What that means is they're not exclusive.
0:43.0	They have relationships with other people too.
0:45.0	Currently, we have a shared partner for the two of us.
0:50.0	And we have been in a relationship with them for about three and a half years.
0:56.0	And then they have other relationships of their own.
1:01.0	When we think about romance, a lot of us have a certain script,
1:05.0	one that's been pieced together from years of watching rom-coms,
1:09.0	or observing our parents and our friends' parents from reading history books.
1:13.0	The list goes on.
1:14.0	Person A meets Person B. They start dating.
1:17.0	They become exclusive.
1:19.0	A and B fall in love.
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