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My ex-wife is dating my wife, and the three of us parent our four kids together
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Mommy and Daddy have a girlfriend. Being in our throuffle, we get judged. We just do
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Stop putting your weird c*** on kids. They don't want it, and they don't deserve it
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It teaches them to be immoral adults, but that's on these people. When my mom and dad told me they had a partner, I was shocked
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I'm not gonna lie, I was a little skeptical. My boyfriend Isaac doesn't really understand my family setup
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Would you guys encourage Jocelyn to try Polly Emery when she's older
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Hey, yo kids! Come on! That's how we do it
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Of course, you're here. Josh and I have been together for 20 years, married for almost 17
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We have four children and one on the way. Who's the best cook out of your parents
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Jonathan. We have Joshua, JJ. He's 10. Hannah Lynn is seven
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Helena, we could call her Nana, she's 12. And then we have Jocelyn, who is 17
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And so the two of you were previously married. Yes. And you've divorced, but you're still together
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I'm with her, like I love her, I still consider her my wife, but we did divorce
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And then as luck would have it, we haven't left each other's side, and nor do I ever plan on leaving her side
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The love has not been lost, and there's no adjustments there. It was my idea to open our relationship. I was the ringleader in everything
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Your partner comes to you and tells you that she's open to like every guy's dream ever, right
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The more she actually wanted a lifestyle instead of an event, then I was like, you know what
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She's serious about this. I was on Tinder and that's how I discovered them
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I saw Abby's photo and I was like, help me, please. I want this one, help us
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I want her, help me. To me it was like, it was gonna be an experience, but it ended up being so much more than that
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Dad saying he loves mom, dad saying he loves mom. Like I do feel that it will affect the children somehow but I do not feel it has affected them negatively in any way I think it cool having Abby in the family She kind of like reminds me of like a best friend more than a stepmom
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She's so nice even when she's stressed. I love Abby so much
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She's my favorite person to like hang out with and be around
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A close try to me is we are polyamorous, but we are closed. Decisions are made together in consistency and romantically
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and all that is together. I have a very special bond with Abby
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that I hadn't had with anybody else. And to have two people love you so much is overwhelming. Sometimes
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We're trying to have an emotional moment here. This is our family
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We put the fun in dysfunctional. A lot of guys are like, dude, that is so cool
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You have two girls. No. I have two birthdays, I got two anniversaries
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I got two girls yelling at me, I have two sets of projects I didn't get done
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It's too, two-edged sword, bud. Hannah, of course, had to make sure no boys allowed
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Hannah has a rollout bed and then Jocelyn, Helena, then JJ has the top
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Then of course we cram all of their stuff in the closet and drawer
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but we make it work without being too hoardy. All right, so now let's move on to our bedroom
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See where all the magic happens. Sleeping arrangements. Now, typically I'm in the middle
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I'm like the biggest cuddler you will ever meet. I'll cuddle here, I'll cuddle here, I'll cuddle here
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I'll sleep on my stomach and cuddle like that. The little Lego pieces that say our name
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And then the date that we made it official. Mine and Abby's wedding in Vegas
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It has a few more photos. As well as it has a couple parking tickets in there
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It's kind of a keepsake for us. We are expecting another little girl
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Her name is going to be Jolene Michelle, and we're choosing Michelle because it's Abby's middle name
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Her little nose. Her nose. Her little pursed lips. So this one was the very first one I bought
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It was the one we announced with, and this outfit the one we going to take her home in She got the little hugged up one too I do hope to have some children of my own I don plan on having five
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I would be fine with just one. That, I feel, would be, like
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magical and special for them as well. Being in a throuple, like, we get judged
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We just do. By all means, give your child a running head start for confusion and relationship problems
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Yes, I wouldn't like this if I were a child having to deal with being raised by these three idiots
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teaches them to be immoral adults, but that's on these people. Who decided that this was immoral
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Yeah. These people are so, like, small-minded. Like, I feel sorry for them, you know
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Maybe that's just what their parents taught them. But that's not what we're teaching our kids
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I love it. I love the hate. I'm like, you know what? You hate us because you hate us
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Yeah. Did you have any concerns about how your kids were going to react
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when Abby joined the family? I didn't have any concerns about our kids
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and how they were going to react because they're fairly open individuals
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Mommy and Daddy have a girlfriend is how we introduced it to the kids. Jocelyn was the first to know that Mommy and Daddy had a girlfriend
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I was a little, I guess, like nervous or worried because it was kind of sudden
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I'm not going to lie, I was a little skeptical how the dynamics would work and how everything would work
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Jocelyn had known that we didn't want to introduce just anyone to the children
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Like they had to be exceptional or special, trustworthy. Abby, she's an amazing person
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She's kind of like a friend, kind of like a built-in parent. It was a lot at first having three parents, but now it's a very big, helpful thing
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Today, my boyfriend Isaac is going to come over. He doesn't quite understand the family dynamic
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So he's going to sit down and talk to my parents about their relationship for the first time
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And my dad especially does not hold back. Boy, quiet! So I'm kind of nervous to see how this plays out
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Isaac is from more of a conventional family, traditional household, man and wife
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People look at you and they're just, they give you looks. He knows not to look at me like that
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but I get that side eye, you know, and I'm like... Do you believe that it harder to be in a relationship with you and one other person or with you and two other people Definitely two people because you honestly you thinking about three people emotions
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This is hard. Like it's hard. It's like your relationship on steroids
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I wouldn't say I was shocked. It was just more like something I'm not used to. I've also seen
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people who want to be in a relationship with other people while still being in a relationship with
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their wife. By introducing Abby it did weaken mine and Kat's relationship a little bit however
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we're stronger than we've ever been. When you came in we got like closer and like yeah you've done
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that for like all of us. She's our unicorn. Would you guys encourage Jocelyn to try Polly Emery
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when she's older. F*** no. Everything in Jocelyn's life, I want to be 100% out of her doing, right
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If she sought it out on her own, I would encourage, but I wouldn't push her to go
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When we're out in public and we get looks, I know me and babe, we just smile
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Kill them with kindness. I wink. To people who question the way you do things as a family
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what do you have to say to them? I think our setup is taboo to people
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because it's not the norm. It's not what society feeds you. It's not what religion feeds you
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It's not what books, movies, TVs, stories, everything is man and woman
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What's wrong with adding another adult to our family that's going to love everybody? Why is that a bad thing
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The message I have for people like us is live your life
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Everyone's going to judge you no matter what you do. I hope that our future holds marriage
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I want them to be married to each other as well as to me at the same time
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I want to die in a bed like the notebook with these two next to me
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I am proud to have poly parents just because they're embracing who they are
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they're living the life that they want to and they don't care what other people think and I just I think that's like the most important thing