Polyamory

My family looks different but we love and support each other, just like yours. This post isn’t about mental illness, but it is me to my very core. My family is everything to me.

When people encounter our family, their eyes get big and they say “wow” — in one tone or another – because they haven’t seen a family exactly like ours before. We did not use a blueprint created by someone else and then struggle to fit each of us inside. We create and re-create our family again and again – from the inside of each one of us– out. We will continue to do that forever, so each of us will always have room to grow and grow and still belong. This is what family is to me: where we are both held and free.

–Glennon Doyle, Untamed

Polyamory: the practice of engaging in multiple romantic relationships, with the consent of all the people involved.

Be well, be kind, love is love is love is love