Paige Nick Grapples with Trinogamy and Those “Soooo” Questions
In one of her latest columns for the Sunday Times, Paige Nick tries to wrap her mind around the lasting ménage a trois that is trinogamy.
Ever heard of trinogamy? And no, I’m not talking about the branch of mathematics that deals with the relation between the sides and angles of plane or spherical triangles, and their calculations. That’s trigonometry. trinogamy is when three people are in one relationship.
According to my research, it’s a little like a ménage a trois, except when you wake up the next morning it’s still going on, and the next morning, and the morning after that.
While your average ménage a trois is usually just a once-off lucky one-nighter that gives you bragging rights for the rest of your life, trinogamy is more of a committed relationship, very much like a marriage, but with three people in it instead of two. Forever and ever until death (or a pick-axe fuelled by jealousy) do you part.
In a second column, Nick deals with those niggling “Soooo” questions that will accompany any stage of a relationship:
I just bumped into a friend I haven’t seen for ages. We chatted, the usual pleasantries. Eventually it rolled around to that inevitable place of all conversations:
ME: Soooo, are you still seeing that guy?
HER: Yes, I am.
ME: Wow, that’s fantastic. You’ve been together for a while now, haven’t you? Two years, right?
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