Sometimes I forget things. I don’t mean my keys or why I went into the kitchen, although I forget those too. I mean I forget bigger things. I forget to be thankful, to marvel, to bask in my life and the people I live it with.

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I think there is a polyamorous trio living in my apartment building. A man and a woman live together, with their dog, two floors above me; on my floor there is a second man, who lives with his dog. I think the three of them are together because we walk our dogs at the same time, and the three of them are always together. Plus, on the weekends I often see all of them leave in a car together, which makes me think they’re on their way to their house upstate or something. Besides, the two guys really set my gaydar off, but one of the men is definitely married to the woman. I assume they don’t all live together because the apartments in my building are, obviously (as this is NYC), on the small side and besides, maybe Man #2 wants more private time.

I am 30 years old, single, and have been that way for a while. As I approached the big 3-0, starting around mid-28, I began to panic about my singlehood, asking myself some tough questions: “What am I doing wrong?” “Are my standards are too high?” “Do I have too much baggage?” I made a new dating motto for myself: “No guy left behind,” ensuring that all dudes got a chance. This equal opportunity dating model led me straight into the jaws of a string of freaks, losers, liars, a-holes, guys with girlfriends, and one very, er…unique guy I’ll call H.

I’m an energetic Aries and I’m getting involved in my first ever threesome relationship with two signs that are very compatible with mine—a very intriguing Sag woman and her awesome Gemini boyfriend. I know that the three of us should work out together, but is there any advice you can give me on how to keep things running smoothly in our happy partnership? I’m a little nervous about coming between them, is there anything I can do about that?—Two Become Three

You’ve got a whole lot of love and you want to give it away to every Tom, Dick and Mary!  While swinging around town, perking up your love life with new stud muffins sounds oh-so-sexy, there are some pitfalls of passion that could ruin the relationship you’ve already got going on.  Loving more than one person at a time, or polyamory, is an exciting lifestyle, but you’ve got to make sure you’re not living too dangerously.  You have to look out for jealousy, fear and, of course, number one.  So, here are some tips on how to juggle multiple partners and safely share your fun lovin’ attitude about sex after the jump….

I really didn’t know what polyamory was until I fell into it at 27. I was arguing one day with a couple I’d been sleeping with for about a month, when BAM! I ended up in a three-way relationship.

I’ve always been open-minded as far as sexual relationships were concerned and was sleeping with a male/female couple. That day, Dan was being overly critical of Ellie. I told them the nit-picking was bothering me, but it really wasn’t my business how they treated each other, since, you know, it was their relationship.

That’s when they looked at each other and asked me, “Well, aren’t you kind of… with us?”

Hmm. “Fine,” I said to Dan, “Be nice to my girlfriend then.”

Couples in Hollywood seem to have a 99% divorce rate. But it’s those rare few who can keep it together. Like Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith. How do they do it? According to MSN, the prince says he can get fresh with whomever he wants, so long as he doesn’t rub it in Jada’s face later. And Jada can do who she wants too, he allegedly told Reveal magazine.  Supposedly they both decided back at the beginning of their 11-year relationship not to stifle their natural attraction to other people. Free Will-y! The Reveal interview is said to reveal that the couple even stipulated their polyamory in their wedding vows, dropping out “forsaking all others” and replacing it with a “just keep quiet about the others” clause. So ladies, if you want the Hancock, you might be in luck.  Don’t let that pesky gold band around his finger stop you! [MSN Australia]

Shortbus, Swingtown, Kinsey, the media does a great job of making polyamory seem sexy. After all, who doesn’t want to get the most bang for their buck? Open relationships sound good in theory, are they really in practice?  While most of us seem to have a hard enough time wrangling one man, could we juggle two or three or four?  After a couple of seasons of polygamy portrayed in Big Love, we’ve all got curiosities, questions and secret desires.  And thankfully Jenny Block has got public answers. A bisexual author, suburban wife and mother, Block has just written what is considered by the polyamorous community to be a ground-breaking autobiographical book Open: Love, Sex, and Life In An Open Marriage.  Ms. Block loves her husband and their daughter, but she longed for more sex and wanted some of it to be with women.  So, she and her husband decided to boldly go polyamorous and then talk about their experiences. Man, that sounds so healthy and slutty, a rare-ish combination.  What’s their secret?!  Guess there’s only one way to find out—make Open your required summer reading. [Huffington Post]