{"id":13064,"date":"2009-03-26T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=13064"},"modified":"2009-03-26T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:57:21","slug":"and-the-cable-guys-howled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/and-the-cable-guys-howled\/","title":{"rendered":"And the cable guys howled"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just looking at the slim pickings on CNN.com and found this article that caught my attention. Here is the lead <\/strong>to the article<\/strong><\/a>. Even the fact that this makes the front page of CNN is incredible in itself; it reveals how boxed in we are about what is possible, or normal, in relationships. And of course, it’s only vindicated because they are “struggling to make ends meet.” Finally, note at the end of the piece how open minded the guy’s new girlfriend will have to be, in order to tolerate something so utterly outrageous as adults living together and getting along.<\/p>\n

(CNN)<\/strong> — Struggling to make ends meet, trying to dig themselves out of debt, Nicole Thompson-Arce and her husband have moved in with her ex-husband.<\/p>\n

Together, the unlikely threesome of Omaha, Nebraska, is raising two young daughters from the first marriage.<\/p>\n

It’s the kind of situation that has left cable guys howling.<\/p>\n

“They’d never heard anything like this,” Thompson-Arce, 28, remembered with a laugh. “And they’re in people’s homes everyday.”<\/p>\n

When she and Craig Thompson, 42, were going through a divorce in 2005, this was not a deal either of them could have imagined striking. It was a messy divorce, the kind involving a custody dispute. But once they ironed out that battle, agreeing to joint custody, Thompson-Arce said they were able to move on and forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though the people involved don’t seem to know and don’t use the word, this is a form of polyamory. Though to our knowledge the threesome is not sexually involved as a triad, what they are doing expresses some of the potential of poly living situations (for example, a more convenient, workable way to raise kids, particularly under joint custody). Of course adding sex opens up a whole new emotional dimension, but if there is some clarity in the relationships and people understand what they want and what they have to offer, it doesn’t need to be that complicated.<\/p>\n

The basic issues are the same, respect for space, and living something other than jealousy as a way of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just looking at the slim pickings on CNN.com and found this article that caught my attention. Here is the lead to the article. Even the fact that this makes the front page of CNN is incredible in itself; it reveals how boxed in we are about what is possible, or normal, in relationships. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}