'My ex-wife is dating my new girlfriend and I couldn't be happier'
A man has claimed he couldn't be more thrilled that his ex-wife is dating his current girlfriend. Joshua Alcon and his childhood sweetheart Jessica have been together for 20 years and share four children together.
However, despite the couple getting divorced, they continued to be in a relationship together - which led to them meeting Abby on a dating website and opening up their relationship.
Joshua, Jessica and Abby now live as a throuple, and raise the four children altogether. Jessica is currently pregnant with their fifth child, and is planning on giving their unborn child Abby's middle name as a tribute to her lover she shares with her ex-boyfriend.
"Mommy and Daddy have a girlfriend," Jessica said in a clip from YouTube's My Extraordinary Life Truly channel. The throuple are very open about their relationship, but they claim it's led to a life of judgement from others - who they call "small minded".
Katherine said that despite her and Josh getting a divorce, 'the love has not been lost and there's no adjustments there". She added it was her idea to open up the relationship - calling herself the "ring leader" of it all.
Joshua said Jessica's request was "every guys dream", before he then discovered Abby on Tinder. He said: "I saw Abby's photo and I was like, I want her, help me please".
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Jessica further detailed the logistics of the relationship and said: "We are a closed triad, which means we are polyamorous but we are closed. Decisions are made together and intimacy and romantically and all that is together." She gushed over how her bond with Abby is "like no other". She added "to have two people love you so much is overwhelming sometimes".
But while the trio love their set up, they have been subject to abuse online from others, with some calling it " weird" and others slamming them for being "immoral adults".
Joshua worries it may affect his children as the dad confessed: "I do feel it will affect the children somehow, but I do not feel it has affected them negatively." However the couples children have adapted to having Abby around, calling her a "best friend rather than a step mum".
Despite them thinking it's "cool" to have a second mum, haters have accused the parents of giving their kids a 'running head start for confusion and relationship problems" but the hate is not something they take note of. "Being in a throuple, we get judged, we just do," Joshua pointed out. He stated: "I love it, I love the hate. You hate us because you ain't us.'
To which Abby said: 'These people are so small-minded I feel sorry for them, maybe that's what their parents taught them but that's not what we're teaching our kids.'
As for the future, Joshua's wish is that he hopes it "holds marriage" and said he wants them to be "married to each other as well as to me at the same time."
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