[Zoe&Wash]

Thanks for responding, Vol.

Divorce isn't an issue for this group, and hopefully it never will be!

And at least your kids are old enough to understand somewhat, whether they can fully appreciate or approve of the situation or not.

I'm not sure how open they are in their vanilla lives. I only know what I'm getting in emails from her and I never really thought about it that much until her son was born and she remarked about her anniversary. That got me thinking.

I really don't want to pry too much and have her think I'm criticizing their relationship. I'm not.

But as a parent, I guess I'm just thinking about the troubles kids have dealing with their own sense of self and how a lifestyle like this could impact their relationships with their young friends, not to mention how the living situation (whether being poly is out in the open or not) could affect how the kids' friends' parents perceive things - particularly regarding play dates and the like.

I guess, in some ways, it's not that much different from "Heather Has Two Mommies", but gay lifestyles have gained a great deal of acceptance over the past couple of decades especially. Poly? Not so much.

Z