Throuple on House Hunters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colorado Springs...maybe they are Mormon? I think I remember Colorado Springs being mentioned in multiple memoirs I have read that were written by former LDS women.

Are you thinking of Colorado City? There is a fringe offshoot of LDS living there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

If my kid grew up thinking a throuple was a good idea or healthy I would think I failed as a parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

If my kid grew up thinking a throuple was a good idea or healthy I would think I failed as a parent.

Agree

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

If my kid grew up thinking a throuple was a good idea or healthy I would think I failed as a parent.

Agree

No one is joining a polygamous cult because of sister wives. Pretty sure no one will become a "throuple" because of HGTV either. Calm down. It would be a different conversation with a 15 year old about how communication and trust work in a relationship, but at 5 I'm just working on teaching acceptance and tolerance of other people's choices.

[Anonymous]

I saw this. I was kind of surprised by them being so upfront and open about it, wasn’t offended by them. I was more intrigued by the word throuple itself. I had never heard it before.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

If my kid grew up thinking a throuple was a good idea or healthy I would think I failed as a parent.

Agree

No one is joining a polygamous cult because of sister wives. Pretty sure no one will become a "throuple" because of HGTV either. Calm down. It would be a different conversation with a 15 year old about how communication and trust work in a relationship, but at 5 I'm just working on teaching acceptance and tolerance of other people's choices.

You would think you failed as a parent? That's a bit extreme, no? I'm also a cis hetero white married woman with 2 kids and, while it isn't our choice of lifestyle, I try to teach my children to not judge others. Do you also think you failed as a parent if your kids think 2 moms/dads, single moms/dads, trans moms/dads, etc are "healthy"? By the time our kids are grown and having their own families things will be VERY different, and while I have my own opinions on things, most importantly I'm raising my kids to treat others with respect and not involve themselves in things that don't impact them, like who other people love and choose to have a family with.

[Anonymous]

People generally have issues with throuples or whatever you call these relationships because there's often an unhealthy power dynamic at play and it's usually to the detriment of the women involved. And not to mention the instability especially if children are involved.

I'm also gay and throuples are not common from what I see. I've heard of references but never actually met any and I've also heard plenty of negative sentiments about the concept. It's one thing to be sexually open but confirmed relationships are something else. People assume gays and lesbians are more tolerant but that's not necessarily true at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

If my kid grew up thinking a throuple was a good idea or healthy I would think I failed as a parent.

Agree

I would think I failed as a parent if my kids turned out to be bigots like the two of you! You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[Anonymous]

How would y’all feel about incestuous couples? Playing Devil’s advocate here but where do you draw the line on “families come in all kinds of combinations”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People generally have issues with throuples or whatever you call these relationships because there's often an unhealthy power dynamic at play and it's usually to the detriment of the women involved. And not to mention the instability especially if children are involved.

I'm also gay and throuples are not common from what I see. I've heard of references but never actually met any and I've also heard plenty of negative sentiments about the concept. It's one thing to be sexually open but confirmed relationships are something else. People assume gays and lesbians are more tolerant but that's not necessarily true at all.

I’ve heard the same

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Anonymous wrote:I have no issue with this. If my 5 year old saw me watching it, I'd just say families come in all shapes and sizes and when you are a grown up you can choose what other grown up(s) you want to be in a family with. The end.

Agreed. I'm a cis white woman in a heterosexual monogamous relationship (married) and I see no issue with this.

If my kid grew up thinking a throuple was a good idea or healthy I would think I failed as a parent.

Agree

No one is joining a polygamous cult because of sister wives. Pretty sure no one will become a "throuple" because of HGTV either. Calm down. It would be a different conversation with a 15 year old about how communication and trust work in a relationship, but at 5 I'm just working on teaching acceptance and tolerance of other people's choices.

You would think you failed as a parent? That's a bit extreme, no? I'm also a cis hetero white married woman with 2 kids and, while it isn't our choice of lifestyle,

I try to teach my children to not judge others.

Do you also think you failed as a parent if your kids think 2 moms/dads, single moms/dads, trans moms/dads, etc are "healthy"? By the time our kids are grown and having their own families things will be VERY different, and while I have my own opinions on things, most importantly I'm raising my kids to treat others with respect and not involve themselves in things that don't impact them, like who other people love and choose to have a family with.

Not all things are good or healthy. It's not okay to judge people for their race or gender or orientation, but it's perfectly acceptable to judge their poor life choices.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colorado Springs...maybe they are Mormon? I think I remember Colorado Springs being mentioned in multiple memoirs I have read that were written by former LDS women.

Are you thinking of Colorado City? There is a fringe offshoot of LDS living there.

Which is not in Colorado, isn't it some forsaken corner of Arizona?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It isn't uncommon in the gay community. Lots of throuples there.

well obviously, if there are three of them then at least two are gay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People generally have issues with throuples or whatever you call these relationships because there's often an unhealthy power dynamic at play and it's usually to the detriment of the women involved. And not to mention the instability especially if children are involved.

I'm also gay and throuples are not common from what I see. I've heard of references but never actually met any and I've also heard plenty of negative sentiments about the concept. It's one thing to be sexually open but confirmed relationships are something else. People assume gays and lesbians are more tolerant but that's not necessarily true at all.

+1. When it’s heterosexuals involved, it’s always 1 man and 2 women. Why? It really makes you wonder. Plus if you bring young kids into it, that’s a whole different level of instability. I’ve got an acquaintance who is divorced and brought her 3 young elementary age kids into a “throuple” situation with an established m/f couple who have 2 kids of their own and have every other weekend with the man’s child from his first marriage. Just insanity to me, and to uproot your kids lives like that just for sex? Crazy talk.

I don’t care if it’s all adults involved, but when you have kids you have to be better, and not bring them into your weird sex situation. Because that’s all it is for most people. A man couldn’t keep it in his pants, and his wife is maybe bi anyway, so why not let him stick his dick in her too?