{"id":882,"date":"2013-07-05T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2020-05-19T18:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T01:48:32","slug":"franklin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morethantwo.com\/blog\/franklin","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Veaux"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Franklin\"I have been ideologically polyamorous my entire life, functionally polyamorous since 1984, and writing about polyamory since 1998.<\/p>\n

What does that mean?<\/p>\n

I’ve been polyamorous ideologically for my entire life, in the sense that monogamy has never made much sense to me. I can remember hearing a fairy tale when I was very young, about a princess forced to choose between two handsome princes. I recall thinking “well, princesses live in castles, everyone knows that. And castles are big enough for both princes. So why does she have to choose?”<\/p>\n

I started the practice of non-monogamy from the moment I started becoming aware that boys and girls are different; I took two girls to my high school prom, and lost my virginity in a threesome.<\/p>\n

Along the way, I’ve made just about every mistake it’s possible to make in polyamorous relationships, struggled with feeling like I was the only person in the world who felt this way about love and romance, and been forced to confront a great deal of social convention that ran counter to what I wanted my life to look like. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.<\/p>\n

For a list of my media appearances, check out my personal site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been ideologically polyamorous my entire life, functionally polyamorous since 1984, and writing about polyamory since 1998. What does that mean? I’ve been polyamorous ideologically for my entire life, in the sense that monogamy has never made much sense to me. I can remember hearing a fairy tale when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-882","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nFranklin Veaux - More Than Two\u2122<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Franklin Veaux has been writing about polyamory since 1998. 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