A polyamorous foursome has spoken out and explained how their unconventional relationship works in real life.
Alysia and Tyler Rogers met Taya and Sean Hartless as the two couples explored options to spice up their relationships three years ago.
After their connection clicked, the foursome fell in love with each other and they soon moved into their new shared home in Oregon.
While both couples had children of their own before expanding their love interests, they also welcomed two more kids after becoming a foursome.
As the proud parents revealed, genetics aren’t important at this point, whereas neither party in the foursome wants to find who is the biological father of the new arrivals.
“None of us had been polyamorous before, but we all just met and fell in love,” Taya told SWNS. “Since we moved in together we all just co-parent all the children — we’re one big family unit.”
“From the first night we met, we all wanted to just see more of each other. It wasn’t easy — there was a lot of hesitations around having feelings. Sean was the first to point it out — he said, ‘We can’t deny this is happening.’ We agreed to talk it out to see what the future would look like.”
The lovers also explained that their relationship is “non-hierarchical” and that they have one-on-one dates on top of quad dates every month.
Speaking of the two new additions to their family of eight, Taya added: “There was no regulation of who the father was and we said we didn’t care. We don’t know and don’t want to know — we said we would all be parents to all of them.
“People ask, ‘Does it make a difference that one is not biologically mine?’ But I have stayed home with him since he was a few months old and there is nothing that would change my relationship with him if I were biologically connected to him.point 326 |
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While the foursome wouldn’t trade their current setup for anything, Taya did admit that being in a relationship with multiple people isn’t always easy.
She also revealed that they “do get jealous sometimes” and that it all took them some time to get used to expressing feelings to each other.
“I don’t think we’ll ever stop learning and we know our relationship will be constantly changing. But we will roll with the punches and make it work. We are different from everyone else but that’s OK — and we have made it clear to our children that they can be whoever they want to be,” Taya concluded.
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