Helen Pidd

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Today in Focus · Throuples (when three isn’t a crowd) · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

So you perhaps, above most others at The Guardian, are very used to asking people questions about matters that would ordinarily be very private.

But I think you've surpassed yourself recently with a fascinating feature about the reality of life in a thruple.

Tell me, what made you interested in this particular kind of relationship?

But what is the difference between polyamory and a throuple?

So a throuple is

So it's usually a couple that adds one more rather than three separate people who all fancy each other thinking, let's make a trio.

Yeah, okay.

And the person that has been found sometimes has kind of an unusual nickname, right?

A unicorn.

Explain this.

So my first couple of questions are going to be for Rachel and Aaron, but don't feel left out, Casey, because we'll definitely be coming to you.

But Rachel and Aaron, could you start by telling me about your relationship?

How long have you been together and how did you meet?

And when you two got together, did you imagine that it was going to be a conventional, heterosexual, monogamous marriage?

And so what changed?

And how did that feel for you, Aaron, when Rachel said that she wanted to explore relationships, sexual relationships, other relationships with women?

And Casey, what about you?

What was your situation, your relationship kind of status, your past before you met Rachel and Aaron?

Wow.

And do you remember what their profile said, Casey?

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